Time stopped flowing.
Luke kept falling and just stopped in mid-air. Everyone was at a loss as to what to do. At this moment, Fang Zheng stood up, disappeared into the air, and appeared next to Darth Vader.
"What are you going to do with him?"
Fang Zheng looked at Darth Vader with a smile. In the original movie, Palpatine had foreseen that Luke would be the one who killed him, so he asked Darth Vader to capture him. But now, because of Fang Zheng's guidance, Palpatine was trying to comprehend the essence of the Force and had been in seclusion on Coruscant, and he didn't care about Luke at all. So this time Darth Vader captured Luke entirely for himself.
"Mr. Fang Zheng."
Darth Vader was somewhat surprised to see Fang Zheng suddenly appear in front of him, and Fang Zheng reached out and patted him on the shoulder.
"Look, I told you that your method of persuasion doesn't work at all. As a father, you don't know how to persuade your son at all. Forget it, let me help you. After all, I am also providing you with technical support."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng raised his hand, and everyone was surprised to see that everything in front of them seemed to be rewound. Luke, who had been falling, returned to his original position. Even his right hand that had been cut off by Darth Vader jumped back from below and reconnected to Luke's wrist.
Then, time began to flow again.
Luke stretched his body and looked at his right hand in surprise. He opened his right hand, clenched it, and then opened it again. Then Luke raised his head and looked at Fang Zheng in surprise.
"You...you? Why are you doing this?"
"Okay, my question isn't really important right now. What's important is you two... Hey, it's normal that Darth Vader doesn't know how to take care of a child. After all, you weren't raised by him. But Luke, my purpose here is not to convince you to join the Empire, but to let you know about your father's past."
"My father's...past?"
"Right. Well... I think it's important to increase the mutual understanding between father and son. Darth Vader can't speak, so don't take it to heart. So... what do you think?"
As he spoke, Fang Zheng looked towards Darth Vader.
"I have a way to let you relive your past. Of course, this involves invading your privacy, so let me ask you first, are you willing to use this method to show your son and daughter your past experiences and thoughts?"
“…”
Darth Vader was silent for a moment, then nodded.
"What about you? Mr. Luke? And Miss Leah?"
Fang Zheng snapped his fingers, and then Leia appeared beside Luke. She stared at Fang Zheng with a complicated expression and clenched her teeth.
"I refuse. No matter what kind of illusion you use to seduce me, I will not yield!"
"I...want to see it."
However, unlike Leia, Luke gave a different answer. Hearing this, Leia widened her eyes in surprise and looked at Luke.
"Luke!"
"He's my father. Isn't it right that I want to know about my father's past?"
"Okay, stop arguing. There's no point in arguing. Since you think it's an illusion, just treat it as a movie."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng reached out and pressed his hand on Darth Vader's chest.
"You're pretty tough here, are you ready?"
“…”
In response to Fang Zheng's question, Darth Vader nodded slowly in silence, and Fang Zheng also snapped his fingers.
"Okay, let's get started then... the Star Wars Prequels Tour!"
As Fang Zheng spoke, everyone was surprised to see the scene around them suddenly change. The next moment, they appeared on a planet covered with loess and sand. In a shabby-looking shop, a child was desperately wiping the parts there.
"This is……?!"
Looking at this child who looked 70% like him, Luke widened his eyes in surprise, and at this moment, Darth Vader's voice rang out.
“This is me.”
"Father?"
"Yes, at that time, I was just a child. My mother and I were lost to Watto by Jabba, so I have been working for Watto as a slave."
There was no ups and downs in Darth Vader's voice.
However, at this moment, Watto's voice sounded, and young Anakin hurried out, only to see a young girl and an old man in a robe standing next to a winged alien. Seeing this, Darth Vader was silent for a moment.
"That's your mother."
“Mother…Mother?!”
At this moment, both Luke and Leia were stunned. They lost their parents at birth and didn't know who their father was or what their mother looked like. But now, they finally saw their mother.
"Is this our mother?"
"Yes, she is Padmé Amidala, the ruler of Naboo. At that time, her country was invaded by the Trade Federation, and Amidala was rescued by two Jedi ambassadors. Later, their spaceship had a small problem and was forced to land on Tatooine. Amidala disguised herself as a maid to travel with them. This was also the first time I met your mother."
Perhaps because the memories before him evoked his emotions, Darth Vader's tone became much calmer.
Next, they saw a lot more, including Anakin winning the competition, getting parts for their ship, and regaining his freedom, but her mother was still there.
"Why?!"
Seeing this, Luke couldn't help it.
"Why don't they take her with them? Isn't she father's mother?"
"Because the training of the Jedi Knights is actually anti-human."
Fang Zheng spoke at this time.
"A Jedi Knight needs to have a peaceful mind and not be attached to external things, and your family and relatives belong to this category. Only by giving up on them can you find peace of mind - well, in my opinion, this is all nonsense. I'm afraid you either have a hole in your brain or you're mentally ill."
“…”
Hearing this, Luke's expression was a little complicated, and Leia didn't know what to say. So they continued to look down, and soon they saw the meeting of the Galactic Senate. Queen Pamela accused the Trade Federation of invading Naboo, but many countries denied her accusation, believing that it was just a storm or conspiracy.
"They have always been eager to overthrow the rule of the Republic and gain greater autonomy."
Darth Vader's tone became more intense.
"It has been like this since the Republic era. These aliens are jealous of our human dominance in the Republic and have always wanted to challenge it. They believe that they are victims of this system, so in the name of fairness and freedom, they are eager to gain more power to check and balance humans."
"…This seems to be the idea of the resistance army as well."
Luke turned his head silently and glanced at Leia, while Leia was speechless, lowered her head and said nothing.
Next, they saw Anakin's situation in the Jedi Council. They feared him, ignored him, and denied him. However, only Qui-Gon, the man who brought Anakin back, still firmly believed that Anakin would become an excellent Jedi Knight.
"This is nothing like what I imagined a Jedi to be."
Looking at this scene with a complicated expression, Luke didn't even know what to say.
"How could they treat a child like this? And this child has helped them..."
At this point, Luke also seemed to have mixed feelings. He had not received formal Jedi training, but seeing this scene in front of him, his original ideas about Jedi changed dramatically. To be honest, Luke also agreed with Qui-Gon's opinion. At least so far, he did not see any danger in this child. This was also the disagreement between Qui-Gon and the Elders. The Elders were unwilling to take risks, but Qui-Gon believed that everyone's future was not fixed.
However, Qui-Gon eventually died.
Having lost Qui-Gon, who was like a father to him, and being away from his mother, Anakin grew up alone on Coruscant. He endured the distrust of the Elder Council and became a Jedi Knight. However, after that, Anakin encountered new problems. He fell in love with Queen Pamelada, but Jedi Knights were not allowed to fall in love, let alone marry and have children. Not only that, Anakin also dreamed that his mother died painfully in his arms. He felt uneasy about this, so he went to the planet where his mother was. However, there, he learned that his mother was captured by the Sand People, so Anakin went to rescue her, but in the end, just like the scene in the dream, his mother died in Anakin's arms.
Furious at this, Anakin wiped out the entire sand village and buried his mother.
Anakin cried bitterly for what he had done, while Fang Zheng patted Darth Vader on the shoulder.
"I don't think you need to blame yourself for this."
"Yes, is it, sir?"
Luke looked at Fang Zheng in confusion.
"But anyway, even if those Tuskens are really bad, he did this..."
"In our world, there are creatures called goblins. They are only male, not female, so they always attack villages and plunder women to give birth to their offspring. You have never seen what happened to the girls bullied by goblins, but for us, the only way to eliminate them is to destroy the entire nest and kill all the goblins, no matter they are big, small, or just born."
Fang Zheng spread his hands.
"Only dead goblins are good goblins. The same goes for these Tuskens. This is their nature and cannot be changed. However, their existence is obviously not good for us, so completely destroying them is also an option."
After that, they learned something surprising, that is, the clone troopers, the predecessors of the current Imperial Stormtroopers, were actually authorized and created by the Jedi Elder Council!
It has to be admitted that this news was so shocking that Luke and Leia were completely at a loss, especially when they watched the clone army wearing Imperial stormtrooper armor slowly walking by and being inspected by the Jedi Elders Council standing on the balcony not far away. Everyone had mixed feelings in their hearts and had no idea what to do.
After all, in their eyes, the Imperial Stormtroopers are a symbol of the Empire's evil oppression, but these soldiers are actually from the Jedi Council, which is supposed to be fighting for justice...
It's simply unimaginable!
If this was just the beginning, then the scene in the later part where the Jedi Elders attempted to overthrow the Prime Minister and gain power in the Galactic Empire would be even more disgusting.
"Look, to put it bluntly, there is no difference between good and evil between the Jedi and the Sith. Of course, the Sith's actions are less popular, but in the final analysis it is nothing more than a political game."
Fang Zheng yawned and looked at Leah.
"The losers are unwilling to accept defeat and want to make a comeback, so they return in the name of the persecuted. However, they must have selectively forgotten how arrogant they were when they were in power."
Palpatine's attempt to seize power infringed upon the political interests of the Jedi Council and led to the final conflict between the two sides. This had nothing to do with whether Palpatine was a Sith or not. If it were someone else, even if he was not a Sith, he would still be purged by the Jedi Elder Council, but the fight would not be so difficult.
Bringing up the confrontation between Jedi and Sith and setting them against each other will obviously gain more support for integration.
The consequence is that once the truth is exposed, the results will be disastrous.
Just like now.
"This is not true..."
Until the last moment, watching the duel between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan, watching his mother's difficult childbirth, until it was over and everything returned to normal, Luke couldn't believe the reality and shook his head desperately.
"I don't believe it. It shouldn't be like this. Why is it like this?! I want to find out for sure!"
Luke turned and ran while screaming, and Darth Vader tried to stop him but was stopped by Fang Zheng.
"Well, Darth Vader, let him go, and you too, Miss Leia."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng looked at Leah.
"You can go now, we have said everything we need to say."
“…”
After hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Leia looked at him with a complicated expression for a moment, then ran after Luke.
"Is this okay?"
Darth Vader watched the two men disappear before he slowly asked, and Fang Zheng shrugged.
"Trust me, trust them, it's okay."
Fang Zheng was full of confidence in this. Although the Jedi had always tried to put the blame of Anakin's fall into darkness on the Sith, in fact, it was not the Sith who could be blamed at all!
Several major events that changed Anakin's life had little to do with the Sith.
Did the Sith arrange for the Sand People to kill Anakin's mother? No, Anakin was very uneasy and wanted to visit his mother, but was rejected by the Jedi Elders Council, who asked him to focus on the mission.
That's right, the Jedi Council, not the Sith.
In the end, if Amidala hadn't been understanding, Anakin wouldn't even have been able to see his mother for the last time.
After that, Anakin fell in love with the Queen, but did this have anything to do with the Sith? Didn't the Sith brainwash them to make one fall in love with the other? But guess who prevented them from being together? It was the commandments of the Jedi Council.
Does it have anything to do with Sith?
In the end, Anakin dreamed that his lover died in childbirth, but it was the little green man Yoda who fed him the poisonous chicken soup.
Listen to what bullshit he is saying?
Does it have anything to do with Sith?
Neither.
What the Sith did was at most just playing supporting roles. It was the Jedi themselves who really pushed Anakin into darkness.
But what did the Jedi say?
Oh, the Sith have tempted you into darkness. This child's future is clouded. I knew he was dangerous...
He selectively ignored all the messy shit he had done, and pushed it all onto Anakin and the Sith, acting like an innocent person.
This shows that the Jedi are really shameless.
Fang Zheng believed that Luke would eventually understand. As for Leia...
"You can find someone from the resistance and spread the news."
Fang Zheng looked at Darth Vader and patted him on the shoulder.
"Tell them that Leia Organa Solo is the biological daughter of Skywalker Anakin, Lord Darth Vader. This is true, right? Then, it's up to them to perform."
Having said this, Fang Zheng smiled slightly.
"I believe they will come back eventually."