Chapter 60 Chapter 60 Tang En led the team away...
Tang En led the team away from this place, walking in this primitive forest.
Iris suddenly asked worriedly: "Now that more than a dozen teams are assigned tasks, will their points exceed ours?"
Tang En said: "They don't have enough time."
In Phyllus' mind, there was still the chaos of the C-point camp. The cold light source and laser weapons were like stars in the universe under the darkness of dusk.
——Time is indeed so precious.
Opportunity, opportunity, is the sum of time and opportunity. Without time, no matter how many opportunities there are, you can only watch helplessly. There are more than a dozen teams, and they may not be able to tell the task slips apart tomorrow. It is extremely difficult to accumulate more points than the First Military Academy in less than two days.
Tang En plans to relax his control over Iris and Lambert in the future. If Shanuo wants to, he can join them. After all, they will feel frustrated if they are not allowed to show their skills in the competition.
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In the silver-white room, Samuel stood with his head down, and in front of him were the projections of his father and elder brother.
Samuel knew that he had seized the opportunity this time, but he was eliminated in the middle of the competition and lost face for the royal family.
The projection of the interstellar era was clearly visible, and every line of the tassels on the eldest prince's body was agile and flowing. If it weren't for the fact that the virtual projection couldn't touch the real thing, the eldest prince Aberso would have wanted to slap his brother twice.
"You should have killed them all the next day when Campbell came back!" Aberso pointed at Samuel.
But Samuel felt that Aberso's words were not a slap in the face, but worse than a slap. Questioning his use of Campbell was questioning his strategy.
He absolutely refused to admit that he had a problem.
It was all the fault of those low-ranking nobles and low-ranking people from other schools,
who turned a blind eye to their kindness and committed treason. Samuel gritted his teeth and looked up at Aberso.
Aberso is five years older than him and has now entered the government. The First Legion has always been the closest legion to the capital planet and the closest, most useful and most loyal legion to the royal family since the founding of the country. It's just that, unfortunately, Tang En is close to his age, and Tang En has a strange personality and rarely attends dances, banquets and parties, so Aberso is never familiar with Tang En.
- Aberso is jealous.
Samuel thought so.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with Campbell," Samuel said, "She really helped me a lot. If her team hadn't been out on a mission, those people in the camp wouldn't have done anything to me."
Aberso sneered, "Did she come back to save you? You're just stupid. You trusted the wrong person."
Aberso was, to some extent, what Tang En said - a stupid but decisive person.
"Enough." The old emperor, who had been watching with his eyes closed, suddenly said, "Abel, this is just a game. Don't be so harsh on your brother. You go out first."
Aberso and Samuel were silent in an instant.
Aberso saluted the old emperor, "Okay, father."
He left, and the projection in the room only left the old emperor.
The old emperor has gray hair and is already 110 years old this year. People in the interstellar age have a long and healthy life, but they can only live to about 150 years old at most.
The age of a son and a father may sound a bit absurd, but it is not uncommon in the interstellar world. The power of technology can preserve reproductive cells, so that he can have children when he wants to. Although it is said that children born naturally from AO with a high degree of matching have the best genes, the problem is that not everyone can find that O.
The room was very quiet.
Samuel was justified when he quarreled with the eldest prince just now, but at this time he couldn't help but feel uneasy.
It was even quiet enough that he could hear his own pulse.
Samuel didn't dare to speak, and finally waited for the old emperor to speak.
"You are not stupid, you are very smart."
Adrian said.
Samuel's heart suddenly sank. Although the old emperor was praising him.
"You want to make friends with Campbell, and you also want to establish yourself in this generation of legion, and you want to have your own party, and you almost did it."
Samuel was eager to explain that he was not, and even had anxious tears in his eyes, but he also knew that it was in vain.
- Because what the old emperor said was true.
Adrian looked at this young and energetic son. How he wished that it was himself standing on the court, with a young body and a high spirit. He would not mess up even such a small matter, and now he had to watch his son here.
If it weren't for the fact that existing methods of extending life have serious side effects, the Creator has arranged difficult obstacles for each species. Edrien originally didn't plan to have children - legitimate children, not those illegitimate children who were born by luck because of his wanton desires.
But he was already old.
He only considered the issue of succession when he was over 80 years old. If he could live to 150 years old, it would not be wrong to hand over the country to the heir who had been through decades of experience.
"You only lacked those two days, you only lacked patience during the search, you only lacked caution and humility." The old emperor looked at Samuel with his green eyes, and their similar eyes looked at each other.
Samuel felt like he was being trampled into the dirt.
This was more deadly than Aberso calling him stupid.
"If you had done any one of these three things well, you wouldn't have ended up like this." Adrian didn't think there was anything wrong with Samuel's behavior, it was just inappropriate, especially for Samuel in that situation, it was extremely inappropriate, so there were extreme consequences.
Samuel nodded unwillingly, "I will change in the future, father."
He promised the old emperor that he would become more patient, learn to wait for opportunities, and be more cautious and humble.
The old emperor sighed.
"You still don't understand, there is someone who set a trap for you. The other party knows your personality traits and tailors the trap for you. If you didn't follow the other party's plan at one step, you would not be like this now. If you change someone else, it won't have such an effect."
Even when Samuel arrived at the competition venue, he was thinking about himself, the royal family, and a win-win situation. The competition seemed to be going according to Samuel's plan, but it deviated a little at a critical point, and a "little accident" happened, which hit Samuel's character pain point precisely.
Now it is Samuel's three losses, and he didn't get any of what he wanted.
- The saddest thing is that even now, Samuel still doesn't know who is behind the scenes.
A little cold sweat broke out on Samuel's forehead.
At this time, he really realized that there was something wrong with him.
He frantically recalled in his mind who wanted to harm him.
The first irrational person who jumped out was, of course, Aberso. Aberso had intervened in the competition system of the military academy league, and he was the one who had promoted the pig-raising form of the mission notes.
The second person was Tang En, a person he was unwilling to believe in.
It was as difficult to deny Tang En as it was to deny himself. From beginning to end, there were only two points about Tang En that were worthy of criticism. One was that he worked too hard in the first two days and got ten more notes than he expected - and she also followed up immediately without any doubt when he said to pause; the other was that she did not come to rescue him on the night of the fifth day, but Samuel could understand it - after all, with nearly a hundred people rioting, no matter how strong Tang En's team was, they could not completely protect the Third Military Academy. If he was the only one left in the Third Military Academy, there would be no point in continuing the competition.
Samuel couldn't figure it out.
The third one is that someone he himself doesn't even know or doesn't care about is plotting against him.
He is even more willing to believe the third one, because Samuel really can't accept that he is dumber than Aberso.
"You can leave." The old emperor closed his eyes.
"Yes." Samuel respectfully turned off the call projection.
In the entire magnificent meeting hall, only the old emperor was sitting on the throne.
The old Adrian touched the gorgeous gem inlaid on the top of his cane.
How could he not know what Samuel was thinking.
Because of his conceit, and someone coaxed him too well, even if he had doubts about someone, he was unwilling to believe that it was the truth.
Of course, the most fundamental reason is because Samuel believed that it was more worthwhile for him to gain the other person than to lose the other person.
Adrian understood the personalities of his two sons.
Samuel is not stupid, he is just short-sighted.
There are too many smart people in this world. Some people choose to use their intelligence for short-term gains, while others choose to use their intelligence for long-term gains. Sometimes short-sighted people always seem to take smart actions, but they look unexpectedly stupid; people with long-term plans sometimes take some stupid actions in order to seek future rewards. No one can say that the other party is not smart.
But there are many people who fall into big trouble because of what they think is "worthwhile" and "calculated", regardless of short-sightedness or long-term vision.
"Campbell... Campbell..."
The old emperor muttered to himself, "Why, there are always excellent heirs."
This one, unexpectedly, is more like his old friend than the previous two.
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"Don't bother with your little piece of land."
Old Campbell's tone was sharp and his words were very vicious. "You came to the First Corps in your fourth grade. Haven't you had enough fun outside?"
Tang En sighed faintly and said, "No."
Avia came into the camera and gave Tang En a worried but unspeakable expression.
Now is the day when the competition is over. Although seven days have passed and they have come out of the forest, the competition process has not ended yet. They are still in the Kessi galaxy.
When Tang En was in the forest, she could rely on spiritual excitement to maintain her enthusiasm in the first few days, but after a few days of boredom, all the old problems gradually appeared.
For example, she really wants to take a bath now.
To describe her with something else, she was like salted and dried bacon in winter, it must be the kind that was not cooked well, it smelled bad.
Although Tang En's nose was used to her own smell, she subjectively thought that she smelled bad.
This is what cleanliness is like, otherwise how can it be said to be a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Avia looked at Tang En and said, "You are not hurt, are you? Did you eat well?"
Tang En said, "Don't worry, you will see me with your own eyes when you go back."
Avia looked at Tang En's face, gave him a few more instructions, and then left the screen.
Old Campbell said, "You were too ostentatious this time."
"..." Tang En was silent for a moment, "I know."
Old Campbell looked at her, "You must enter the First Legion as soon as possible."