Before Qi Yan got home, he received several communication requests from Xia Zhiyang, Ye Pei and Mondrian. He simply opened a multi-person conversation.

Xia Zhiyang spoke the loudest: "Qi Yan, are you okay? Are you injured? Are you in a bad mood? Is your bodyguard with you?"

Ye Pei said: "Xia Zhiyang, you asked everything I wanted to ask! Are you going to give people a chance to speak?"

Qi Yan answered the questions in order: "I'm fine, the safety protection level of the suspension vehicle is very high, I'm not injured, I'm not in a bad mood, he's always with me."

Hearing Qi Yan's last few words, Lu Fenghan glanced at him lightly.

"That's good, that's good. Don't be sad. It's not worth being sad for such a scumbag! I've read all the news on Star Network. What kind of rubbish is Jiang Qi? How dare he hit you with his car!"

Although Xia Zhiyang calls himself a playboy, he doesn't have many words to curse. He said angrily, "We are so unlucky that we have to share the same air with such a scumbag! He used to act so arrogant in front of us, but it turns out that he was just boasting because he felt guilty!"

The average life expectancy of the alliance has exceeded 100 years. After a person becomes an adult, he will enter a long youth and middle age. As late marriage and childbirth and singleness become popular, the concept of love and marriage has gradually changed.

Society does not oppose single marriage or multiple marriages, but it places great emphasis on monogamous fidelity during the marriage. Therefore, extramarital affairs are despised and illegitimate children do not have any inheritance rights.

Ye Pei was thinking about Laurent: "No wonder Laurent was so against you before, it must be because of Jiang Qi's instigation and the one million star coins! If the truth hadn't been revealed, it would be hard to imagine that Jiang Qi could call you brother with a smile, care about you, and secretly want to kill you!"

Xia Zhiyang concluded: "A beast in human form!"

Ye Pei: "His heart is damnable!"

The two of them talked back and forth, like singing a duet. Mondrian couldn't get a word in for a while, so he had to type: "I'm glad you're okay."

Xia Zhiyang was the first to see: "Mondrian, why are you just typing and not talking?"

Mondrian sent another ellipsis.

Without realizing it was because he talked too much, Xia Zhiyang cheerfully suggested: "How about we get together and celebrate? What happened today is really gratifying! You don't know how happy I felt when I was reading the comments on Fanxing.com! Finally, finally! Finally, more and more people have seen through Jiang Qi's disguise!"

However, his suggestion was ruthlessly rejected.

Ye Pei: "The research group's project tasks don't allow me to go out for a gathering!"

Mondrian: "The tasks at this stage are coming to an end, so divide one hour into two hours."

Xia Zhiyang asked cautiously: "Where is Qi Yan?"

Qi Yan: "I have completed the research group's tasks, but I have other things to do and I don't have time."

Xia Zhiyang howled in disappointment, and then determined: "Then let's go into the holographic system to celebrate! Five minutes!"

Finally, the four people connected to the holographic system from their personal terminals, found a virtual coffee shop, drank a cup of virtual coffee, and then logged off one after another.

Lu Fenghan had been listening to the conversation of several people. When he saw Qi Yan cut out from the holographic system, he asked, "You've been so busy lately, because of 'Po Jun'?"

Although he didn't really drink the coffee, his taste nerves still transmitted a faint bitter taste. Qi Yan nodded, "Well, time is running out."

"No time?"

Qi Yan didn't answer, and his eyes quietly turned away.

Amused by his little action, Lu Fenghan changed the subject, "Then... why do you like to do these things that most people think are difficult? Because no matter how difficult it is, someone has to do it?"

Qi Yan rarely thinks about such questions involving "motivation".

"Part of the reason is this. In addition, scientific research is forward-looking. If I don't understand the formula, then I haven't figured it out. If I don't understand the steps, I won't think that I have understood them. I won't remember it wrong."

This is his rare clarity.

Lu Fenghan quickly thought of another possibility: "Will it happen that you have solved the formula but remembered it wrongly, thinking that you haven't solved it yet? The work you have completed, but you remember that you haven't finished it yet?"

"Sometimes." Qi Yan was very calm, "But clarity is greater than confusion, which is enough."

The car accident has been a hot topic on the Star Network, which has a huge information flow, for half a week. Involving a wealthy family, the traitor who sold scientific research data before, and the academic fraud of the Roentgen Award, plus the keywords such as cheating, illegitimate children, concealing one's identity, multiple secret frame-ups, and intentional murder, the popularity has remained high, and Qi Wenshao has also become famous in the alliance.

But the reputation is not so glorious.

According to the information from the reporters, Jiang Yunyue never left the house after returning home from the police station, and the Qi family even locked the door tightly, refusing all outsiders and reporters to interview. At

the same time, at the end of the 216th year of the star calendar, the "Leto Daily" published on the second page in a very low-key manner the news that General Nie Huaiting intended to resign the honorary title of "Alliance Commander".

Although the Alliance Commander has no corresponding real power and is a purely virtual title, he is the first person in the Alliance military recognized by everyone. The information about the successor has not yet been released, but this behavior alone shows that the war faction has reached a point where there is no retreat.

Lu Fenghan was not sure whether the person behind the news was reluctant to expand the impact of the incident for the time being, so he only put two simple sentences on the second page.

His mind rarely floated without Lu's point. He remembered that Lu Jun was once ambitious and wanted to first destroy the interstellar pirates, then destroy the rebels, and restore peace to the alliance, but in the end he died and not even a piece of his bones could be found. He

also remembered that Nie Huai Ting had already turned a few white hairs before he entered old age. He devoted himself to the alliance and tried his best to remove the rebels, which was a thorn in the heart of the alliance. Now, he can only resign from the post of commander-in-chief himself.

For a moment, he was a little puzzled.

It is said that we should follow the will of the people, but what if the will of the people is wrong?

Just like Nie Huai Ting, he certainly never thought that one day he would be questioned and suspected by the citizens of the alliance he has always protected, so that he would have to appease all parties with a compromising attitude.

But even so, Nie Huai Ting still did not agree to transfer the expeditionary force stationed on the front line of the Southern Cross Region back to Leto. Instead, he ordered the integration of troop deployments in various parts of the Central Administrative District to strengthen Leto's defense.

Lu Fenghan could see that Nie Huai Ting's move was to avoid being attacked in two places at the same time. But once this order came out, it caused dissatisfaction among many people.

Vincent had the same idea as Lu Fenghan. He did not even use communication as usual, but knocked on the door of Qi Yan's house in person after nightfall.

Taking off his wide-brimmed hat and black-framed glasses, Vincent slumped on the sofa without any hesitation, staring at the ceiling for a while, then tilted his head and asked Lu Fenghan: "Commander, after the New Year, will General Nie officially step down as commander-in-chief?"

He looked weak and seemed to have lost his spirit.

Lu Fenghan didn't sit down. He was used to standing against the wall. "It should be. After the New Year, it will be the founding day of the alliance. According to the rules, the celebration ceremony of the founding day is jointly hosted by the Secretary-General of the Alliance and the military commander. The peace advocates can't wait until that time to let General Nie regain a wave of popular prestige."

Vincent's voice was bitter: "I can't muster the energy all day today. I feel... I don't know what I am protecting with my weapon."

He covered his eyes with the back of his hand, revealing the gun coil on his palm: "Commander, aren't you disheartened? The mainstream argument on Star Network seems to be that the expeditionary force spends the most military expenditure, uses the most advanced weapons, and drives the most advanced A powerful starship, but fighting the most cowardly battle. The rebels are described as invincible gods of war, but we are described as a bunch of wretched trash!"

Vincent lost his former frivolity, his voice choked with sobs and anger: "But, if we are greedy for life and afraid of death, we shrink back, then who can tell me, why did Reina, Feng Ao, Jacinto, Louis, and Mofei die? When I joined the expeditionary force, the team number was 7683, there were 100 people in the team, and now there are only 19 alive, including me! Who can tell me, where are the other 81 people? Huh?"

The further he went on, the trembling his voice became, and the bulging veins on his forehead were obvious.

But in front of Lu Fenghan, he finally suppressed his outburst of emotions.

Lu Fenghan stood in the shadows, without any military bearing. He waited until his breathing calmed down before speaking, and every word he said was solemn: "Take up your weapon."

Vincent closed his eyes tightly, and after a few seconds, he continued the second half of the sentence: "Protect the stars behind you." He gritted his teeth, "But-" "

No buts." Lu Fenghan left no room for doubt, "If you think you are right and most people are wrong, then you should correct those people's mistakes. If you think those people's judgments are wrong, then you should provide sufficient and accurate information so that everyone has the basis for correct thinking.

Even if it is wrong, the fault is not in the alliance citizens who spread public opinion, but in those who deliberately guide wrong public opinion."

Vincent did not speak.

Silence filled every corner.

After a long time, Vincent moved his hand that was covering his eyes and looked at Lu Fenghan with a wry smile: "Commander, how did you do it? When everyone is angry, disappointed and confused, why can you always stay awake? Oh, and you also scolded us all to wake up one by one."

"Because you called me 'Commander'." Lu Fenghan raised his eyebrows, "Why, do you want me to pound the table with your fists and scream in pain?"

Vincent retorted: "This will never happen!"

Lu Fenghan was very perfunctory: "Oh."

Vincent: "..."

Before he knew it, he recalled how stupid he was back then.

Only now did Vincent finally have the heart to look around: "Where is Qi Yan?"

Lu Fenghan replied: "In the study." He had been staying up late every day these past few days, as if something was chasing him.

"As expected of a student from the school across the river, you are so hardworking!" Vincent stood up, picked up his wide-brimmed hat and retro glasses, "I'm leaving."

Lu Fenghan didn't try to stop him, but only reminded him: "Cherish this opportunity, and you will be charged next time you come. Psychologists charge by the minute, and I'll charge by the second."

Vincent was like a nail to the floor, unable to move, thinking that if he left a minute earlier, he would lose tens of thousands of star coins! He said sadly: "Commander you, you were not like this before, you have changed!"

"Before? You know that was before."

Vincent felt something was wrong, thought about it, and asked tentatively: "What about now?"

"You don't understand." Lu Fenghan put his hands in his trouser pockets, and didn't know what he thought of. His voice became lighter twice, "Now I have to save money."