Chapter 109 Chapter 109 Civilization is like a domino...
The king of the Reval Empire, Solantron Reval, is over five hundred years old.
I don’t know if it’s because he lived too long, but he has a very strange personality.
Interstellar medical care is clearly advanced, and physical fitness can be improved by replacing prosthetic limbs and various electronic organs.
But Solantron, who was suffering from illness and was at the top of power, would never accept such "transformation" in any way.
As a result, he has been bedridden for nearly a hundred years.
One day, Solantron suddenly came to his senses and replaced his entire body with metal prosthetic limbs.
He recovered his health from then on.
Although the ministers were very happy, the servants around His Majesty always felt that the king had changed a lot after the operation.
Solantron's body got better, but his spirit became worse than the hundred years he had been lying in bed.
As the king's daughter, Lytiana felt the changes even more dramatically.
He doesn't look like a king anymore.
He cared nothing about the empire.
Solanteren occasionally says some strange things.
For example, just now, when he mentioned the code name S, a little light flashed in his empty eyes, but it was quickly covered by thick darkness again.
This was not the father Litiana knew.
That mechanical body seemed to bring something else to Solantron's heart.
A tired and empty soul.
At the same moment that Litiana was thinking this, Garton Iowa opened the door of the greenhouse and left.
After the meeting, Solantron returned to his free and easy state. He even hummed an ancient song and stepped on his mechanical legs to the flower stand in front of Princess Litiana, with his back to her.
He raised his hand and pressed the button, and the sprinkler system started to work. It mechanically scanned and accurately identified the flowers in the flower bed and began watering them.
As he raised his hand, the white sleeve with gold thread slipped down, revealing the mechanical arm inside.
The robotic arm has been perfectly debugged, so its movements are not stiff, but this flexibility gives people a sense of weirdness.
A shiver ran down Litiana's spine.
It's as if... deliberately disguising themselves as human.
Because the saliva secreted by nervousness was very noticeable, Litiana swallowed gently.
What if the father no longer exists?
What if there really is another soul in that body?
Countless bizarre thoughts flashed through Litiana's mind.
But she quickly put her fantasy to rest.
Anyway, now is not the time to think about this.
She has to leave.
Solantron had been away from the Empire's affairs for years, and the fact that he had secretly instructed Gadon, even requiring him to be silenced, was no small matter. The most urgent task was to leave the greenhouse as quickly as possible, to a safe place, and to find out what Gadon had done.
Litiana then hid behind the flower stand and crawled on all fours.
Her heart was pounding, but she still controlled her exhalation in an orderly manner.
No sound was made.
She backed away carefully until she reached the path beside the greenhouse.
Solan Teren's humming was still far away behind her and had not stopped. It was obvious that he did not notice her here.
Litiana breathed a sigh of relief and was about to open the secret passage, but suddenly remembered that she had not closed the door when she came in just now.
Who closed that door?
Litiana's mind was suddenly filled with noises, and she broke out in a cold sweat. When she looked up, a pair of electronic prosthetic eyes looked at her coldly.
"Liti, you still like playing hide-and-seek like when you were little."
Solan Teren said so.
Wang took off the metal mask, revealing the high-precision skin behind it, even the pores on his cheeks were made very fine.
This is made to imitate the face of Solantron when he was young.
To Litiana, it was a familiar face, yet it looked very strange.
Although the tone was intimate, it sent a chill down her spine.
How did he find her?
When was it discovered?
But Solantron seemed unaware of Litiana's fear and calmly led her to the front of the flower stand.
A smile curved his lips.
“You loved flowers when you were a child.”
Litiana didn't know what he was thinking under his calm face, so she could only smile and steady her breathing.
“Yes, the vivid look of flowers is fascinating, and I love it now too.”
"But you didn't come to the garden often when you grew up."
“Because there’s not much time to appreciate it.”
"Really? Indeed, you've been busy with the affairs of the Empire. Now take advantage of your break to see the flowers in full bloom."
Solantron said as he operated the greenhouse system.
The greenhouse perfectly simulates the four seasons and the outside ecology. It is like a complete world.
And he controls everything like a trader.
"——Liti."
Solanteren suddenly called Litiana's nickname.
"Flowers follow the seasons. Don't you think human society does the same?"
“Since its birth, civilization has been like dominoes falling one after another, collapsing, restarting, and reborn in an endless cycle.”
"Live forever in war and pain."
“Lessons are never learned.”
“Just as flowers cannot escape the seasons, no matter how hard we try, people cannot escape the cycle of pain.”
“Perhaps pain and destruction are written into human genes.”
Solantron said, adjusting the greenhouse environment to winter.
The flowers felt the cold temperature and gradually withered.
Litiana's lips turned pale and she pinched her hands.
What is he talking about?
Who is he?
Her mind was in a mess, but she could only force herself to calm down.
She had to find an excuse to leave.
Litiana gave a proper smile.
"Father, what you said makes sense, but the engagement banquet is about to begin. Please allow me to leave first."
"Whose engagement party is it?"
"Ying Shaye."
Solanteren knocked his head, as if trying to recall who this person was. But because it was all metal, his head only emitted a resonant echo.
He thought for a moment and said "Oh".
"Now I remember, since he's from the Ying family, it's really not right for him to be absent. Go ahead and say hello for me."
After Solanteren finished speaking, he showed a mechanical smile, waved his hand to signal Litiana to leave, and then said:
"Hopefully no one will die today."
…
After Litiana saluted, she left the greenhouse steadily, and then her steps became faster and faster.
Almost panicked.
She could feel the gaze behind her, and turned around suddenly, but there was nothing.
The palace was originally very spacious and was built like a maze.
She didn't know where the gaze came from. At a certain moment, she suddenly reacted and looked up.
All the overhead cameras turned towards her.
That's where the sight comes from.
Litiana ran quickly, trying to shake off the creature behind her, but found that no matter where she went, the surveillance camera followed her.
At this moment, a strange scene appeared in the sky.
The sky suddenly closed.
She was clearly not the only one who noticed.
Litiana rushed out of the palace and heard surprised voices around her.
"Why is the sky dark? Is there a virus?"
"I, I'm having trouble breathing. It's so cold, the temperature has dropped to zero degrees..."
The air on Chester is thin, and only within the protection of the sky can the suitable temperature and environment be maintained.
It's like being in a greenhouse.
"Once the canopy is closed, the air will gradually return to its original state. Although it won't kill you, it will be very difficult for you to adapt."
"Especially for people with weak constitutions."
Everyone didn't know what was going on, and they were in a panic and could only run to the shelter.
The sky suddenly lit up again, but everyone only took a quick look and ran even faster.
Because what was shown on the sky was not the ordinary blue sky.
But an eye.
"Warning, warning!"
"High-risk intelligent attack. All personnel, please proceed to the nearest shelter immediately."
"Repeat, high-risk intelligent attack, all personnel—"
Lytiana stood in the throng, looking up into that eye. She tried to contact her guards, but the line was cut off. She pursed her lips, turned around, and ran back to the Ying family.
The current situation must be related to what Solantron just said.
The only one capable of solving the problem is the Ying family.
Litiana ran so fast that she didn't even notice that she was having trouble breathing.
"Liti!"
Litiana thought she heard a woman calling her, but she didn't turn around.
As she was stepping onto the stairs, a hand suddenly appeared at her side and pulled her into the alley.
Is it an enemy? Litiana quickly drew the gun from her waist, but the man was very skilled and her gun was snatched away by him.
Litiana said quickly:
"I am the princess of the Reval Empire. You should know what this means. If you don't let me go, I will... Marshal Ji Yi? What are you doing?"
When Litiana saw who was holding her hostage, she was dumbfounded.
Ji Yi had obviously run a long distance and was a little out of breath. She put Litiana down and handed her the oxygen mask to cover her face.
"Your lips are purple."
Litiana then realized that her hands and feet were numb from lack of oxygen. She took a deep breath and continued, "As the marshal of the Ark Federation, you actually held the imperial princess hostage?"
"Does this matter now?"
Ji Yi pointed to the sky as he spoke.
"You should find a way to resolve this first. After all, I am the Marshal of the Ark Federation, and it is not appropriate for me to interfere in the affairs of your empire."
Litiana slapped her hand away: "I was planning to go to the Ying family to look for someone, what are you trying to do by stopping me?"
"I have no ulterior motives. It's just that the Ying family is in a mess right now, and I don't think they can help."
"What's the meaning?"
Litiana looked puzzled and stood up to see clearly that Ji Yi was followed by a woman in a wedding dress. The white wedding dress was stained with blood and the hem was torn, looking very disheveled.
Yingshaye.
Shouldn't she be at the engagement party?
Litiana paused for breath. "Saya? Why are you with her? What's with the blood on you?"
Ying Shaye put her elbow on Adjutant Bai and squinted her eyes. "Oh, the blood isn't mine, it's my father's. I crashed the engagement party and ran away from the wedding. I ran into them on the way to the recruitment office, so we came to find you together."
"Escape, no, conquer..." Litiana choked on the overwhelming amount of information. "What's with that skirt?"
"It's inconvenient to run away, so I tore it myself."
"You're going to the recruitment office wearing your wedding dress like this... Forget it."
For the first time in her life, Litiana felt like giving up everything, as she felt that things were becoming more and more beyond her imagination.
"What should we do with high-risk intelligent entities?"
"The Lemen Monitoring Center is trying to locate it, and we can't help."
Ji Yi shook his head: "Not necessarily."
"What's the meaning?"
Ji Yi returned Litiana's gun to her and looked up at the eyes covering the entire Chester Star.
She touched her metal left leg.
"Haven't you always wanted to know why I came to Chester? In my last battle on the front line, I used this leg to exchange for a piece of information."
"The Zerg's consciousness contains traces of a high-risk intelligent entity. The Zerg plague in the second galaxy is related to the intelligent entity."
"And that intelligence lurks within the human body."
"What?! Who is it?"
"I suspect it's my student, Bai Ying."
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