Chapter 21
...Dream.
Qi Heng felt very clearly that he was in a dream, even though this dream was extremely real.
After entering dreams several times, he has mastered many of the rules of dreams.
For example, actions in dreams are mostly restricted, each dream is rarely connected to the previous one, and you may not always dream of useful dreams. Sometimes it is completely a "dominated daily life" dream experience tour.
Like now.
He was standing in the pavilion in the temple garden.
This is the place that the "Master" visits most often. Qi Heng is quite familiar with it. After all, he has been here many times in his dreams.
It is just a garden in the temple, but it is planted with various rare plants from other planets.
I don't know how much effort and resources have been spent to make these flowers and plants that require different environments and climate temperatures bloom vigorously at the same time, blending them just right to be gorgeous and not vulgar, showing the best side of flowers.
The meaning of their existence is only to please the master who comes here to relax and unwind in his spare time.
Seeing the data in the game transformed into real scenes in the dream, Qi Heng couldn't help but say "It's so luxurious". Every part of this temple is extremely exquisite, gorgeous and magnificent, carrying the entire civilization's faith and respect for the master.
Qi Heng sat in the pavilion, his hands resting on the white jade table, wondering what this dream would be like.
Could it be that he was just bored and came out to appreciate the flowers again? He thought aimlessly.
This is not impossible. Qi Heng remembered that he had a dream in which the Lord sat in the garden for a whole day. He was forced to experience the daily routine of doing nothing but admiring flowers and drinking tea from morning to night.
Even in a dream, Qi Heng could feel the master's leisure, and he was just about to ask someone to sing a song and dance.
——You know what, I actually quite enjoyed it.
Qi Heng, who works as a corporate slave on Earth in real life and has to go on a day trip to the mine every day after traveling through time, thought so.
At this moment, there were sudden footsteps approaching, and the other party seemed to be afraid of disturbing him and deliberately slowed down their pace.
Who could it be?
Qi Heng lowered his eyes and thought, and several Zergs that often followed the Overlord and appeared in his dreams appeared in his mind, but his bodies did not move at all.
Outside the pavilion.
"Your Majesty, the time has come. Would you like to proceed to the main hall now?"
The approaching Zerg stopped and bowed his head humbly and respectfully, even though the person he was greeting had his back to him and had no intention of saying a word about his purpose.
Where are you going?
As soon as Qi Heng thought of this, his body moved.
He turned around and looked at the black-haired and black-eyed male insect in front of him. He was the insect that served and took care of the master's daily life.
I have seen this person in the previous dream, but at that time he had just replaced the previous one and came to the side of the master. Now he looks much more mature than before... But the timeline of this dream has been pushed back further than before.
After dreaming so much, he also figured out a timeline that was unique to dreams—a timeline spanning 11,000 years from the birth of the Overlord to his sleep.
Before Qi Heng left the garden, he raised his hand and picked a flower from the bushes.
Before he could think about how the master would pick the flower this time, the flower in his hand was handed to the black-haired male insect who was two steps behind him.
The flowers he picked were the most numerous in the garden, and the number of other alien plants combined was barely equal to that of these flowers.
This is a flower that can only grow on the mother planet of the Tianjia civilization. It has a pure white appearance and each petal is lightly decorated with a layer of gold. It is known as the symbol of the incarnation of the civilization of the ruler.
In the legend of Tianjia civilization, double-petaled golden-edged snow orchids only bloom where the master is.
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Main hall.
Qi Heng was not unfamiliar with this place. He had been there the first time he entered his dream, and it appeared there frequently in his dreams.
It was nothing more than a meeting of the Zerg below, with him listening to reports and occasionally making a comment.
But this time it seems a little different.
Qi Heng stepped into the main hall.
The male insect behind him said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty has arrived."
The Tianjia civilization has no royal family, only one Overlord, who is the ruler of the entire civilization and the only emperor of the empire established by the Zerg.
Qi Heng's arrival alarmed the Zerg standing on both sides of the main hall. Although their status was extremely noble in the empire, they all knelt on one knee in front of him to pay the highest respect to the "Lord".
"May your majesty's glory shine forever upon Tianjia. We will always follow your will. Your will is the direction of the empire's progress."
Qi Heng walked slowly along the middle avenue without changing his expression, and finally climbed up the stairs and sat on the throne that belonged exclusively to the master.
Looking at the Zerg below, he felt no wavering in his heart.
"Everyone get up." Qi Heng spoke in a low voice.
Who could have imagined that the first time he heard this sentence and faced this kind of situation, he almost bought a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment? Now, he's heard it so many times that it doesn't matter anymore. He just treats it as an in-game NPC dialogue with a voice pack.
The black-haired male insect, who was like a personal butler, stopped on the steps closest to him, holding in his hands the freshly picked golden-edged snow orchid still covered with dew.
Opposite the black-haired male insect, there was a female insect holding a cushion, on which was a butterfly with aqua blue wings.
Qi Heng looked at the female and male insects who stood up below. He half leaned on the back of the chair with his elbows on the armrests and his hands lightly supporting his chin. He thought that the number of people who came today was enough to hold a general meeting... Well, it seems that those with some status have arrived.
This scene looks somewhat familiar.
Before Qi Heng could figure out what it was, he saw the black-haired male insect saying to the other insects, "The ceremony begins."
A somewhat old female insect stepped out and bowed to him.
"Under the witness of His Majesty, the oath we signed will pass loyalty into our blood..."
The dream now was no longer as vague as the first time, and there were only a few Zerg that could show up in front of the Overlord, so Qi Heng, who had a good memory, recognized the female Zerg below.
The other party is the Grand Chancellor of the Empire, who is only below him in status. He is the Zerg leader of the Empire who is truly responsible for handling imperial documents and formulating policies.
Hearing this, Qi Heng roughly knew what was going on today.
…It’s time for another change in the Empire’s management.
"Your Majesty, allow me to introduce you to the person who will become the new Grand Consul of the Empire after I step down."
The supreme ruler of the Tianjia civilization is the master, and the ones who truly maintain the operation of the empire are the chief consul and the military marshal of the same level.
But unlike the former, the latter is not only the empire's military marshal, but also the commander-in-chief of the original Zerg. He is basically not responsible for any brain-intensive matters, and his position has not changed for thousands of years.
No matter how long the lifespan of ordinary Zerg is, it is not as long as that of the Overlord, so the term of office of the Empire's Chief Archon is generally two thousand years.
However, they will basically start preparing for the handover and selecting successors around 1,500 years later - only the most outstanding Zerg are worthy of becoming the Grand Chancellor of the Empire and offering all their loyalty to the Overlord and the Empire.
The best are selected from the best at each level, and there is a mechanism that allows candidates to challenge themselves before the end of the selection. They are eliminated again and again, and the only one left who succeeds in becoming the Chancellor of the Empire is the Zerg, who are the best in the world. They will create a new prosperous era and push civilization to another peak.
The Grand Archon and his seven first-level Imperial Archons are usually replaced together, and each replacement will swear allegiance to the Overlord.
During the oath-taking ceremony, they establish a special bond with the Overlord, which they call a "pledge."
Qi Heng prefers to call it adding friends. After all, the role of this oath in the game is to add a two-way chat room between them and the Overlord, so that the Overlord can give orders to them directly when necessary.
With the Overlord's spatial talent and powerful mental strength, chatting across the starry sea is no problem - the number of friends can only be controlled at nine, so after the current class obtains this "honor", the previous class will be deleted as a friend.
Of course, this chat room is usually one-way. After all, they dare not disturb the master unless it is something important.
After figuring out what this dream was about, Qi Heng came back to his senses and perked up to see who the new Chancellor of the Empire would be.
At the bottom of the stairs, a tall young man wearing the black imperial military uniform was standing. His silver hair was simply braided into two braids and tied into high ponytails on both sides. The rest of his hair fell straight and smoothly to his waist.
His eyebrows and eyes are delicate and elegant, and his handsome appearance makes people unforgettable and unable to take their eyes off him.
These eyes are so beautiful.
When Qi Heng saw the young man's cobalt blue eyes, he couldn't help but think.
"Come forward."
As soon as he said this, he knew that he had missed some of the 'plot' because he was distracted, and he also knew that the 'plot' at the moment was out of his control.
Everything he saw in the dream had already happened in the past, and he could only watch and not interfere.
The young man walked up step by step, and finally knelt on one knee in front of him, kissing his fingertips almost reverently.
"Your Majesty."
It was clearly just a dream, but Qi Heng subconsciously felt something strange.
He told himself in his heart that this was all a ritual process, and he should relax and not take it too seriously. It was just a kiss... It was definitely not the first time he was treated like this in the more than ten thousand years of his reign.
Qi Heng knew where this strangeness came from.
It was the appearance of the female insect in front of him that made him feel uncomfortable, or uneasy.
It was nothing special, it was just like the mistake he made in the game when he was young and reckless, which made him regret it deeply... What was even more terrifying was that it was possible, perhaps, probably, that the other party was that 'mistake'.
Qi Heng heard himself laugh, his eyes fixed on the young man's face without moving away.
The distance between them was so close that Qi Heng could lift the face of the female insect in front of him with just one hand. He saw his own reflection in her eyes.
In his early years, the ruler of the Tianjia civilization wore a mask all year round to prevent his true identity from being exposed and being targeted by other civilizations. The face reflected in the eyes of young people only revealed his smooth chin and lips that were straightened into a line.
This also made Qi Heng enter the dream many times, but he never saw clearly what the face under the mask of the Overlord looked like.
"Your name."
Qi Heng heard his own voice, and this sentence made his heart jump.
For someone like him who has highly optimized the appearance of the entire race, it is reasonable for him to ask the name of this face, but now for some personal reasons, he just wants the "Dominator" to shut up.
Shut up and stop asking.
He really didn't want to confirm the other person's identity at all, let alone know if he was the one he thought he was.
Qi Heng's attempts to stop him had no effect on the Lord.
So he could only watch the young female insect smile at him, her eyebrows and eyes revealing the joy of being asked her name by the master himself.
"My name is Chu Xiu."
The young man's clear and gentle voice fell into Qi Heng's ears, but it made him feel like he was struck by lightning - he knew that his premonition was correct.
The author has something to say:
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In this chapter, Lao Qi's wife has a close-up. Hehe~~ It's still a long time before the two meet (her presence will gradually increase as the plot progresses, she won't be invisible all the time, okay?)
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