Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Why?”

Cheng Xuansou held his gun finger for a long time, smiled softly, carefully and truly detailed Choi Lingfeng's face, “I should ask you this question, Mr. Speaker, how fanatical spirit can you support your pathological belief, convinced that the Star Sea Republic still exists, convinced that with hundreds of scrap copper and iron, the Firefly can sail another thousand years, even one day kill back to the center of the star sea to defeat the immensely powerful Real Human Empire? ”

“Tang Dingyuan is absolutely right. The Republic of the Star Sea is long dead. Wu Yingqi entered the Supreme Council a thousand years ago and declared himself the Speaker of Parliament at the moment he was dead! The Firefly is just its corpse, we're just living in this decaying corpse, a tiny little bug! ”

“Kill back to the center of the Starsea and revive the Republic of the Starsea? It's impossible. Stop dreaming! ”

Choi Lingfeng stared dead at Cheng Xuanxing. His eyes were like two sharp hooks. He wanted to unhook her head and look clearly. His voice was very low, but full of desperate power: “Xuanxing, even you think so? Even if this is a dream, it's not just a dream for me, it's a dream for millions of people, including your father! Your father, as well as countless heroes like your father, dedicated their entire lives to this dream with no remorse! Just to give... a little hope to that great country a thousand years ago! How could you? How could you think that? ”

Cheng Xuanxing's face was full of indifference, but the light of the crystal eyes grew deeper and deeper, reddish and purple and dark, colder and colder: “Again, that man is not my father, the hope of the so-called 'Star Sea Republic’, is just you old, deluded dreams, what does that have to do with me? ”

“Perhaps for you, the 'Republic of the Stars and Seas' really represents a great history, a lot of things, everything for you! Many of you were born in the middle of the star sea and grew up in the midst of the full height of the star sea republic, witnessing and enjoying its strength and prosperity - just like my sperm provider, and then you were packed into a hibernation bin like zombies, hibernating all the way to this day, and naturally you miss that ancient kingdom, which had long been extinct. ”

“But me? ”

“I was born on this cold, dark, small and damp wreck, and from the moment I remember, I was faced with an endless catastrophe, today with the leak of this chamber, tomorrow with the explosion of that pipeline, and the day after tomorrow with the famine caused by an artificial greenhouse failure! ”

“Behind our asses are the thousands of Empire soldiers, ahead of us is the Dark Star Sea, where no human has ever set foot, and our wrecking ship is rusting and rotting day after day, with no hope! ”

“That's it, that's it. What else do you have to use 'the glory of the past of the Republic of the Stars and Seas' to fool people and tell ‘go back to the center of the Stars and Seas' jokes! ”

“Just because I am the daughter of that man, just because I am flowing his blood inside me, and because of all your bullshit, I have been ‘voluntarily' trained to be the toughest since I was five years old, inspired by lies, constantly shooting limits, trying to turn myself into a 'hero' like that man, until the end of the day, but turning myself into... Now this scar is exhausting, and no one looks ghost! ”

“So, isn't it a normal reaction to choose ‘betrayal’ after discovering that you have been fooled and that you have struggled for half your life, is just a complete joke that will never be achieved? ”

“Why did you ask me to choose the Real Human Empire? Oh, it's simple, the days on the Firefly, I've had enough! The dull air, the tiny cabin, the food that tastes like chewing wax, the fear day and night, as if there was no fly to see the darkness of hope at all... I've had enough of this! ”

“I have devoted my first half of my life to this rotten body of the Starling Sea Republic, and for the second half of my life, I am going to live another way, living like a real man! ”

Choi Lingfeng is also like a dead zombie, he hissed: “Even so, even if you really... don't want to stay on the Firefly, you can choose Starlight Federation! ”

Cheng Xuan snorts: “What is the difference between the Federation of Stars and the Republic of the Stars and Sea? You are destined not to resist the realm of the Real Human Empire. I have fled once, I do not want to be the dog of the second bereavement, I do not want to die! Empire, can give me everything I want, everything! ”

Choi Lingfeng grieved: “So you betrayed your own compatriots and fell into immortality? ”

Cheng Xuansheng looked at him with irony: "What difference does it make between a mendman, a mendman? Naturally, anyone would say, ‘The cultivator is the sword of human civilization', ‘The cultivator was born to protect ordinary people’, but is that the truth? ”

“If you, the fixers of the Republic of the Stars and Seas, are truly so great, what are the chances to usurp the power of the Supreme Council and become the 'Black Star Emperor', embraced by ordinary people, Wu Yingqi of the past? ”

“Tell me, on the little Firefly, the higher you get, the better treatment and the greater power you get. ”

“Ordinary people and bottom sailors live in shady, wet, tiny cabins, and many do not even have their own separate sleeping bins, and have to share them with their families and sleep alternately. ”

“And the tall fixers, whether you're senators or Don Dingyuan's bridge commanders, will be treated dozens of times more than ordinary people - at least you won't have to take turns squeezing a sleeping warehouse, right? ”

“The Firefly has nearly a hundred Yuan Baby Monks, but I've never seen a Yuan Baby Monk live in a cabin that's smaller than the cabin of a bottom sailor, and that's just a legitimate difference in treatment, and I'm too lazy to say about the illegal tricks that your senators do, the use of power to converge supplies, the black market deals, and so on —— so what's the difference between a repairman and a fairy, between the Starling Sea Republic and the Real Human Empire, and so on? ”

Choi Lingfeng's face was red and white: “This, this is an extraordinary period, it has to be done! ”

“Yeah, extraordinary period. ”

Cheng Xuanzhen laughed, “I remember the last ‘extraordinary period', because of the food shortage, when Parliament even decided that no one was allowed to conceive and give birth naturally, that sperm and eggs had to be frozen, and that the number of newborns had to be precisely controlled according to the material circulation and demographic changes on board, and I was conceived under this policy by 'precise control' —— is this something that practitioners can do? ”

Choi Lingfeng's eyes twitched for a moment, as if his heart was being severely ravaged, gasping for a coarse airway: “It was a difficult decision, but we had no choice but to do so. If we let the population explode, we would end up in an uncontrollable famine and a man-eating hell of a place! ”

“This policy has proven to be effective, having lived through a difficult hundred years, finally overcoming the problem of food shortages and restoring normality and a new life to our society! ”

"Chancellor, do you think I was opposed to the policy at the time? No, on the contrary, I very much agree with that policy, which, in the circumstances, was the only way to continue our civilization! ”

“Aware of that, I was so happy, I figured it out! ”

“Often, right and wrong are meaningless, and true or immortal, because we have no choice. ”

“The Firefly has limited resources and limited space, but population growth can always reach infinity. We have made many choices for the continuation of civilization… we have no choice. ”

“Broadly speaking, is the whole human civilization at the helm of the Real Human Empire, in the vast dark universe, more than just a larger 'Firefly'? Perhaps, in order for the whole human civilization to continue, the Empire will have to make many choices, too! ”

Choi Lingfeng really stood still, thinking for a moment, deeply trembling: “Where exactly did you learn so much from... from the thoughts of treachery! ”

Cheng Xuansou smiled: “Don't underestimate the barbaric land by the stars, the legendary high world people, don't all live in such a place? Chairman Lu Qingdu of the" Imperial Palace "is a scholar who has a very deep research on Xian Avenue. Many of his thoughts are deafening and exhilarating! ”

“Well, if you don't have anything to ask, that's it. ”

“Sorry, Chancellor... No, Uncle Choi, even though you've lied to me for decades with all that nonsense, let's call you Uncle Choi one last time! Nobody wants this to happen, really, it's not personal, it's not even a street fight, I just want to go to the kind of, I should have gotten, real human life. ”

Cheng Xuansou raised his pistol and pointed at Choi Lingfeng's eyebrows. "Remember then, whenever I was exhausted and could no longer climb up, you encouraged me to say, as long as I persisted in the end, I would surely create a miracle! ”

“Unfortunately, however, I have been away from believing in miracles for a long time. ”

Choi Lingfeng's face was as dead as a dead gray. He felt no more sorry for himself than his heart died. He couldn't even spit out half a word.

“That…”

Li Yao scratched his hair and raised his hand to speak.

“Hmm?”

Cheng Xuansou's eyebrows picked out, and the red light emitted by the crystal eyes locked Li Yao, “Professor Rod, I'm sorry to involve you in this matter, but your luck is bad. Any last words? ”

“No last words, but I really want to say a few words. ”

Li Yao looked at Choi Lingfeng and looked at Cheng Xuansheng. He blinked his eyes and said, “First, I think, the universe is so big, the 'miracle’ thing sometimes happens. ”

“Secondly, between the two of us, one of us is not very lucky today, but it should… not be me. ”