Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Although the immortal rebellion on the Firefly was rapidly suppressed, it was only the beginning of everything, and the imperial meeting hidden behind the rebellion and its leader, Lu Zhenjin - Lu Qingdu - were the key.

How important will this mysterious local immortal cultivator be in the forthcoming battle between the Federation and the Empire?

The secret interrogation against Ding Zhengyang began immediately.

He is the leader of the fairy repair on board and one of the few people who has personally come into contact with Lu Qiangdu, the "first wanted man in the Federation”. Behind this overly hasty rebellion, there is more or less a shadow of Lu Qiangdu fuelling.

Whether Choi Lingfeng, Tang Dingyuan or Li Yao himself, they want to dig up Lu Qingdust through Ding Zhengyang, or even... the people who hide behind Lu Qingdust.

The secret interrogation was conducted by Speaker Choi Lingfeng, Captain Tang Dingyuan and Li Yao, who alone saved them and captured Ding Zhengyang alive.

Ding Zhengyang's cell is the one where Tang Dingyuan was held half a day ago - this is called "self-infliction”.

The first mate of the Firefly deck was quite prestigious in the past, known as the Dinghai Needle, but at this moment it was like a snake that had been pulled out of his fangs, pulled out his muscles, collapsed softly in the corner of his cell, his faint eyes staring at the void, reading words in his mouth, laughing bitterly, shaking his head suddenly, convulsing suddenly, not knowing that he was mourning the failure of the plan, begging for the forgiveness of his old boss, or complaining about himself - shouldn't he have taken this step in the past?

“Zhengyang! ”

Seeing his depressed and utterly hopeless appearance, Captain Tang Dingyuan is even more distressed and ill than seeing him betray Wuyang Weiwei. He and Ding Zhengyang are decades of living and dead brothers, deeply aware of what this big eyebrowed red-faced man used to look like, “Look at yourself, how did you make yourself like this? You shouldn't be so scared to death. You climbed from the bottom sailor to the first mate's post step by step. You didn't wrinkle your eyebrows so many times in the past, so you rushed to solve it! Your nickname ranges from" Desperate Sanro "to" Dinghai Needle ". Are you afraid of dying? You surrendered to the Real Human Empire to save your life? I don't believe it. Tell me what happened! ”

Every word of Tang Dingyuan, like a small spherical lightning bolt, stirred in the cell, rolled over, impacted Ding Zhengyang's almost decaying nerve.

Ding Zhengyang's expression resembled that of a person who had taken an excessive amount of drugs and was unresponsive and prolonged in his asthma. He stayed for a long time and looked at the crystal eyes. He rubbed his beard and pulled his cheek. He suddenly laughed, smiled and closed his eyes, leaving two lines of cloudy tears.

“Yeah, I shouldn't be so scared to death... For the last 50 years, everyone called me 'Desperate Sanro’, and for the next 50 years, they called me 'Dinghai Shenzhen Needle’. I was from the bottom of the Firefly, the dirtiest, most dangerous fuel zone and power compartment, step-by-step to the post of first mate. What kind of danger have I not experienced? What kind of tragic corpse have I never seen? ”

He opened his eyes again, and the dark rainbows in his eyes intertwined into old memories, "Eighty-two years ago, the power compartment was penetrated by meteor rain, leading to a big explosion, and I was the first to rush in to fix it. I was wearing one of the thinnest repair crystals, one cave at a time, blocked by a cave, and those meteorites were passing through me, and one of them went straight through my helmet, and just another five millimeters to the left, it would melt my whole brain.

Fifty-seven years ago, in a fuel leak accident, the 'Cicada Blood Sand' should have been stored at very low temperatures, immediately vaporized at normal room temperature, turned into a deadly poison mist, filled the entire fuel zone, and could corrode the main fuel delivery pipe at any time, triggering an unimaginable chain reaction.

Again, I was the first to rush in with my brothers to repair the frozen charm array in a deadly gas that is extremely toxic, extremely corrosive and irreversibly corrosive to the spiritual roots, spraying ‘ice condensate' and collecting a little bit of re-liquefied 'sand of divine blood'.

At that time we sacrificed one hundred and twenty-two brothers, we all did a very good job of protection, but we couldn't help but fill in this kind of accident with our lives. Before we rushed in, everyone knew this, even I knew it very well. In this case, if the hatch door was closed behind us, it might never open again!

There was also that impact 42 years ago, the black hole tidal accident 33 years ago, the ultra-high radiation accident 25 years ago... Captain, you're right, I really don't seem to have done it, I haven't escaped, I'm not afraid to die!

But, hey, but I'm not a machine, not a pharmacopoeia unit, I'm just a person! Who dares to slap his chest, claw his neck, say that he has never bowed in his life, never retreated, never feared death? Whoever is not afraid of death is afraid of death!

Even though I was afraid of dying, I rushed my scalp to death for only one reason. At that time, I had hope, I believed that I had died meaningfully and worthwhile! My death will make my wife and children old, my children and grandchildren, all my compatriots on this ship live better!

But really, do we have hope? Look me in the eye, honestly, touch my conscience. Tell me, my brother, my captain, tell me! ”

Ding Zhengyang suddenly became insane and shouted at the monitor's eyes, tearing the sand dull throat.

Tang Dingyuan glanced at Choi Lingfeng and said, “Of course we have great hope. Every hero's sacrifice is valuable! ”

“... bullshit, I won't believe it anymore, Captain. ”

The roar just now seemed to exhaust Ding Zhengyang's last moments. He was like a leaking skin ball, curled back into the corner, like a lost child, holding a nonexistent doll, shrunk into a bunch, revealing a self-derisive smile, “When, I was as convinced of these lies as you were, what ‘we inherited from the Daoist system of the Star Sea Empire, It is the last hope of human civilization', what ‘Evil has prevailed since ancient times, one day we will kill back to the center of the star sea’, what 'the real human empire is brutal, domination has been shaken down, any time it is possible to destroy itself’, even that stupid overwhelming, destroyed dozens of times the 'dark star’... all this, every word, more than belief, has become My faith!”

Li Yao softly coughed, sweeping the eyes of the two elders in exile, using the sound to enter the secret magic talent, and secretly asked Choi Lingfeng: “Mr. Speaker, what is this' dark star that has been destroyed dozens of times’? ”

Choi Lingfeng sat down and looked serious. He did not seem to have heard Li Yao's question. Even his lips did not tremble half the time, but Li Yao received his response.

“It's a series of morale-inspiring promotional films we've been filming over the last hundred years about how we beat the Real Human Empire, called Star Sea Wars!

In this promotional film, the evil Real Human Empire, in order to rule the entire universe, took out the vital resources of all the great thousand worlds under their control and built an incredibly powerful, incredibly evil, incredibly horrible artificial planet, Starry Navy Fort, known as the "Dark Star", which also brought together all the important government agencies of the Empire, key technicians and all the precious divinity and information.

As a result, the Firefly entered the emptiness, killing the 'Dark Star’ and destroying the ‘brain’ and ‘heart’ of this true human empire, defeating the Empire! ”

Li Yao: "… well, although the real human empire can't be so stupid, after all, is it a promotional film, understandably, what does" destroyed dozens of times "mean? ”

Choi Lingfengdao: “After the broadcast of this propaganda film, it was very popular. It soon became popular with the entire Firefly, and it had countless fanatical supporters. Of course, the sequel was going to be filmed. In the sequel, the real human empire became stronger, and the earth came back and came up with a more evil way to deal with the whole universe and our star sea republic! ”

Li Yao: “What way? ”

CHOI Lingfeng: "That is to continue to pool all resources and build a bigger, stronger and more terrifying 'Dark Star II'! ”

Li Yao: “Then again, this Dark Star generation won't be destroyed by the Firefly inside again, will it? ”

Choi Lingfeng: “Yes. ”

Li Yao: “Then you filmed dozens of" Star Wars "sequels, each of them creating a bigger" Dark Star in the Seventy Eighties "and then being torn apart by the Firefly? ”

Choi Lingfeng: “Wrong, the rear real human empire no longer builds an artificial planet, but instead digs up a planet and transforms it into a more powerful dark star. When the planets are all bored by the audience, we also try white dwarves, red giants and adult stars, the Sun. ”

Li Yao: "... Mr. Speaker, I suddenly have some deep understanding of the feeling of frustration and anger of Vice President Ding after discovering the lie. What should we do? ”

Choi Lingfeng: “What can we do! If the Empire is not allowed to adopt such a foolish strategy, how can a firefly be used in the district to avert an outrageous, counter-attack and win all? ”

In the cell, Ding Zhengyang's face laughed deeper and deeper, like a bitter tide that drowned himself and three others outside. He continued to say with impatience: “I have always believed in all this, believe that we really have hope, believe that the Republic of the Stars and Sea will one day return to the center of the Star Sea, believe that the Real Human Empire is nothing more than a strongman, and it will collapse at the touch!

It is this belief that made me fearless of death, which led to the "Dinghai Needle" and "Desperate Three Brothers"!

But after all, lies are lies, and as soon as they come to the truth, they collapse!

My belief, ten years ago, when we met the Imperial Expeditionary Claw Fleet, was utterly destroyed! ”