~： chapter 5 (1/2)
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At the same time, the Saturn Desert.
The cold moonlight sprinkled on the desert, and the continuous dunes in the distance reflected the hazy white light. The night wind raised the gravel and whistled towards the distance, making a weeping noise.
The emperor wrapped in a coarse cloak and sat quietly in front of a lone stone monument in the desert. The white marble is extremely cold in the moonlight, and the front of the stele is uncarved, smooth and smooth like a mirror.
No one knows that this is the gravestone of the Alliance **** Gavin Silia.
When Heinrich was young, he thought about what should be written on the tombstone if he died one day. ”The great soul rests here”? ”Allied loyal sons and fighters”? Or simply and concisely, ”This is a good person”?
He had not defected yet, he was not emperor, and all the hard and glorious journey had not yet begun. The young man's enthusiastic brain loved to think of something impractical, until one day he couldn't help it, and described this fantasy to the superior Marshal Silia.
At that time, they were standing by the square waiting for the parade. The marshal was wearing a white military uniform, with unusually straight lines from shoulders, back to waist and long legs. The hottest models in the galaxy were dwarfed. Heinrich raised his head and saw a smile on his lips before he whispered, ”I thought about these issues when I was as old as you ...”
”What do you think?”
”How do you say, Heinrich. I have lived too long, fought too many battles, and done many things that are difficult for a lifetime ...”
Heinrich interrupted him, seriously: ”You are a great man.”
”No, in the vast galaxy, the soul of each of us is equally small and insignificant, there is no great place. When I was not in the army many years ago, it was just a child in an orphanage of Egret Star. Just having a full stomach is no different from every 'social burden' that those bourgeoisies despise ... ”
”Egret star does not have the lp elite special training system ?!”
The marshal suddenly calmed down.
Before Heinrich had time to regret his mistake, he saw the marshal raise his head, and his dark and clear eyes were fixed on him.
”Those reports are false,” he said lightly. ”I'm a bt.”
Heinrich couldn't say a word.
”My life is too long and too difficult to summarize. If I die one day, don't write anything on the tombstone.”
He paused and said, ”I don't need the sad thing of the epitaph.”
After the death of Silia, the emperor wanted to erect an unprecedented tombstone. He wanted to sink the whole piece of water to pour water into the sea. He even wanted to empty the core of the planet and turn it into a icy dead star. Cemetery as Field Marshal.
But in the end he did nothing.
He found that Silia was right: no matter what language or poem he used, he could not make any conclusions about the glorious and long life of the Marshal of the Alliance.
When he was alive, he was fighting against the huge ** system every day, leading the loyalty and blood of hundreds of billions of soldiers, leading them to look for the almost impossible light in the endless darkness; When he died, he had nothing in his hands, and as a defeated man, he could not even enjoy a decent funeral. He was accompanied only by this lonely desert and a distant galaxy.
He was regarded as a shrine by the hundreds of millions of soldiers in the Empire, but no one knew his life was lonely and hard.
”Do you regret it, Celia?”
The emperor dumped the last sip of wine slowly to the ground, and the scorching cold wind swept the wine away instantly. He smiled and shook his head, ”I'm sorry I asked, although this question should be blasphemy for you. After all, not everyone ... is eligible to die for their own beliefs.”
”What do you believe, Alliance? Have you forgotten that it was actually the Alliance's gangsters who were afraid of death?”
The emperor didn't look back and sighed, ”Aaron, we can never agree on the alliance's point of view. This issue need not be discussed any more.”
Aaron climbed up the sand dunes, and sat down on the ground with heavy electromagnetic poles on his head. The emperor glanced at him and asked, ”How do you feel?”
Aaron shook his head, grabbed the jug and dropped it for a long time, throwing it off in a fretful manner.
”Don't worry, the griffins will not be lost.”
”Of course not, I'm not thinking about that.” Aaron sighed, and finally couldn't help arguing again for a long time: ”If it wasn't for the alliance's betrayal, the Guangyao Army could not be defeated in the last battle!”
What Heinrich wanted to say was interrupted sharply by Aaron: ”Even if the victory of the empire is a foregone conclusion, the alliance also has Celia, there is a glorious legion, even if you do nothing, you can safely retreat to the galaxy outside the river! Or even if the alliance is disbanded, the Glory Legion also has Marshal Silia. He is the spiritual leader of the entire military. As long as he is alive, the alliance's struggle will never subside! It is the greedy and horrified **** of the parliament that finally sold out He caused the Shining Legion to be attacked and killed, and Marshal ... ”
”He will die as well,” the emperor said quietly. ”Even if there was no betrayal by the alliance, he would still be self-defeating.”
”what did you say?!”
Heinrich was unmoved: ”You wo n’t understand, so you are not the ** house. The victory of the Empire 50 years ago is a foregone conclusion. All the efforts of the Glory Legion are just killing lives. You also said as long as The Marshal ’s struggle in the Alliance will not stop, so he must not be able to survive ... Do you know how many troops were left at the time? 8.4 million. Although not worth mentioning compared to the Empire ’s 100 billion Corps, but those It was human life, and Silia's death saved them. ”
Aaron, like the angry lion, threw the jug on the sand fiercely: ”Don't insult them! Although the camp is different, they are all upright soldiers, they have the right to die for their faith!”
”Faith,” Heinrich sneered. ”In the end, the war was just a confrontation between camps and camps. With 8.4 million ordinary soldiers, who really has faith? Silia is fighting for the Alliance, they are just fighting for Silia. It ’s worthy of admiration, but the meaning of life is more than that. Celia goes to death alone, and they have the right to continue to live and enjoy life as citizens of the Empire. ”
”Hey, I don't believe that this view is available to people like you,” Aaron stared at him suspiciously. ”Who teaches you?”
Heinrich was silent for a long time before whispering: ”The Marshal once discussed this with me, many, many years ago ... I couldn't understand many of his thoughts at the time, and thought he was wrong, and now I want to come too shallow.”
The night wind rolled with gravel, and galloped in the moonlight, looking far into the desert as if a layer of silver-white fog was rising.
Heinrich stood up and said lightly in the wind: ”You don't have to be too accountable, he would not surrender to the empire without these. Can you imagine Silia's life in the empire as a prisoner of war? He would rather die, Nor will he step into the door of the new Fontainebleau Palace. ”
Aaron frowned. ”Why?”
”He's a bt, how many people will ... you don't understand yet?”
Aaron went silent, half a moment coldly: ”It may not be that, he can accept our protection, he doesn't know anything anyway.”
Heinrich yanked the corners of his mouth, and the smile seemed full of bitterness and self-deprecation.
”Yeah, fortunately he always ... never knew anything.”
The emperor turned and walked out of the dunes, leaving a line of deep footprints in the moonlight, and was soon drowned by the sand.
Aaron looked at the white monument in front of him, and couldn't help leaning forward, as if trying to touch the cold monument. However, at this moment, the emperor turned back suddenly as if he had eyes behind him. He asked sharply, ”When do you call back the griffins?”
”... I will!” Aaron was so distressed that she got up and walked down the sand dunes, complaining in disguise: ”That mental threshold is higher than me, it's **** fucking, my head is still sore ... ”
”Where did they go?”
”Egret star, it is estimated that it will take two days to arrive.”
Heinrich nodded, only listening to Aaron's sigh of relief: ”It's really death. Those of the protection society on Egret are extremely chauvinistic lunatics. Once unmarked, they are found ...”
”Send him to the Military Research Institute,” the emperor's tone was uncritical. ”I want to know what the Fugitive Army is studying.”
Aaron waved his hand and said casually, ”Relax, you can't escape.”
2.
Three days later, the egret star customs.
Gavin was expressionless and coldly: ”Let me go, I don't know what you are talking about.”
The hall was full of people. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see the spaceships on the tarmac in the distance. The checkpoint is full of a large number of passenger flows from various planets.
The place where he was was a small corner outside the toilet. The tall potted plants completely blocked the sight of the outside world. Two tall lp men wearing similar police uniforms were blocked in front of him. The imposing vigilance made this narrow space. Even more crowded.