Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Let go of me, Richie, let go of me! ”

“I hate you, Richie. I hate you. I'll never talk to you again. Let go of me! ”

“How did you end up like this? How did you and Dad end up like this? I don't even know you! Are you really my brother and dad? You're not going to be invaded by alien stars, are you? ”

“Please, brother, you can't do this. Shannua is innocent, and it has done nothing wrong. On the contrary, it has been protecting us, even sacrificing its limbs more than once! It needs us, we need it, we can't treat it this cruel! ”

“Brother, when we were kids, didn't you like Shannua too much? I remember back then, you had the dream of being a dreamer before me, you liked Shannua more than I did, you used to go and tell stories to Shannua, me and Shannua were your faithful listeners - why now, since you grew up, everything has changed, everything has changed! ”

The girl struggled hard on her brother's shoulder, slipped her legs and scratched her hands, but she couldn't stop him from carrying her to the hospital in New Hope City like a frozen statue with no expression on her face.

It was a big, comprehensive hospital, not to mention people living in Shannoua, even inhabitants of a number of asteroid mining belts, who had serious illnesses coming here to treat them —— but like everything else around them, it was a distant thing in the past, and now people are building state-of-the-art, environmentally beautiful medical boats, where the vast majority of people go to see a doctor, and only a few of the DMC meditators and psychiatrists are still stationed.

Pepe used to wonder what psychiatrists were doing here.

Now she knows.

Brother locked her in a white room with six sides all sponged, trying to hit the wall with nowhere to go, licking the wound she scratched out of her arm, silent.

The girl was still angry and stared at her brother. “Richie, you've changed! ”

“Of course.”

Brother is like a small father, calmly said, “Everyone, no, all life will grow, all will change, I will change, and Shannua will change. ”

Pepe stuck in words for a while and then barely said: “No, Shannua and I will never be as dark as you and Dad..." ”

“Yes.”

Brother laughed, “The reason we've become so dark is to hope that the people we guard will always be bright and never be like us. ”

Pei Pei opened his mouth, I really don't know what to say, and the anger of heaven can't be outburst, I can only cry weakly: “Brother, is there really any other way to do this? Would you please go and ask Dad again, or you can let me go and talk to Shannua? There is always a way, and we can always come up with a solution that doesn't hurt anyone. ”

“Let you go and tell Sanoua that we're going to kill it? ”

Brother asked calmly, "Can you predict how many people would be killed by Shannua's reaction after hearing such news? Including those who still live on it, and the fleet that surrounds it - five million, ten million, fifty million or more?

“Yes, Shannua is kind and pathetic. Of course, her life is precious. A naive and kind little girl like you can't bear to watch her die in obscurity. It's perfectly normal.

“But our compatriots, those five million, ten million, fifty million or even more human beings, including all your little partners, are also innocent, kind and pathetic, and those newborn babies who know nothing, they also have the right to continue to live.

“If you leave hundreds of millions of lives alone in order to save Shannua, I do not think it is true goodness, perhaps the greatest evil from the perspective of all humankind. ”

Pepe was struck by lightning and silent.

Brother sighed and squatted down.

“Don't blame Daddy for being mean, Daddy can't help it, you know a lot of things aren't up to DMC, not even our little fleet. ”

Brother continued, "In front of the ‘Supreme Joint Combat Conference', both the director and the commander of our fleet are small figures, small characters, the surveillance of every empty hunter, has always been a matter of joint supervision by all the fleets of humanity. Just as our empty hunter threw the 'who am I' question, hundreds of fleets under the Supreme Combat Conference communicated through gravitational waves, and received alerts and followed closely our disposition of the empty hunter - according to the contingency plan, in case the worst results were encountered, that is, the empty hunter completely lost control, destroyed or even enslaved the entire fleet, all the rest of the human fleet would be free to attack us and destroy us completely together with the uncontrolled empty hunter! ”

“What!”

For the first time Pepe heard such an amazing contingency plan, the girl was completely incomprehensible, "How can this be? ”

“Not like that. So what? Watching the void hunters devour the fleet of mankind and decipher all the secrets in the fleet and the human brain, further develop into the King of Terror we cannot imagine? ”

Brother sighed again, "Actually, the attitude towards empty hunters is very conservative, Dad and our Commander - they all like empty hunters, like traditional lifestyles, hope that humans and empty hunters can live together peacefully and continue to maintain the symbiotic relationship they need, really! ”

“How is that possible? ”

Pepe foxed suspiciously, "Daddy was going to kill Shannua! ”

“The explosion was aimed at rebirth, killing Sannua, so that those 'anti-void hunter pies' in the Supreme Combat Conference could not find a reason to wipe out the void hunters completely. ”

Brother said, "With the advances in starship refining technology and the proliferation of holes, human civilization has changed dramatically over the past millennium. A thousand years ago, the vast majority of humankind relied on empty hunters to build their own towns and fleets, but now less than twenty of the 100 human fleets still have empty hunters at their core. The rest of the fleet has either found a new habitable planet or become a complete starship civilization. In short, a whole new human civilization that is rising does not need empty hunters at all. ”