Chapter 787 Meeting Twenty Years Later
'I ask you, what is the principle of life? '
'Is it the everlasting desire. '
'Or is it the end after satisfaction. '
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The year 1300 of the Sixth Era, the year of life.
This is a great year in the history of the Rose Federation. Since the volcano singer Pulin Koko took over the power of the Federation, the entire country has slowly pulled out of the quagmire it was in the past, and once again moved from a conservative stagnation to pioneering and enterprising.
3489 new residential space stations were built in various star regions of the Milky Way, and 209 residential stars built an ecological circulation dragon vein system. All walks of life have reaped the dividends of the rapidly developing economic situation. A wave of the times has lifted countless people to a high position that was unattainable in the past, which makes them more confident in their choices and enjoy all of this as a matter of course.
These 20 years are called the third revival of the Rose Federation by scholars, 20 years of burning like gold.
Just as the original idea of the 'Fire Lotus-Star' faction, they used blazing economic development to eliminate the contradictions between social classes and bring another glorious era to the Federation.
"We are glorious."
"We are proud."
"We should praise all this as a reward for our efforts."
"Cheers!" xNThe
golden and red wine rippled and splashed in the magnificent hall. It was a sparkling ocean, and the warm and proud emotions were overflowing.
The Crown Star Region, the capital of the Federation.
Pulin sat alone under the golden world tree. Her fiery red hair was reflected by the halo of the leaves and also dyed light gold. At this moment, there were two wine glasses and a bottle of orange-yellow Cointreau beside her.
She was waiting for someone, and time did not make her lose patience. The door on one side of the hall opened, and a girl in gorgeous clothes with long black hair came out.
"You are here, Tilan."
Pulin knew who was coming without looking up. She picked up the bottle beside her and slowly filled the two glasses.
The sound of clear water echoed in the glass, and the amber-colored wine flowed, exuding a faint aroma.
"You know, I don't like drinking." Tilan's elegant voice came, and then she came to Pulin's side.
"I know, but today is different."
Pulin handed the full wine glass to the girl. The arm exposed in the sleeve showed a trace of golden etchings, and the brilliant flame mark on Pulin's forehead showed that she was now at the top of the singing girl, the level of the blazing sun in the sun.
Taking the wine glass, Tilan sniffed it carefully, and then took a sip. The taste was mellow, with a faint fruity aroma, but it was not that uncomfortable. It seemed that Pulin specially selected it according to her taste.
Seeing that she did not refuse, Pulin supported his head and smiled, then picked up his own glass, gestured to Tilan, and then drank it in one gulp.
"It will taste better if you drink it this way."
The two did not talk about the past 20 years, nor did they talk about the promise they made that year. They just drank slowly, savoring the mellow aroma and feeling the subtle changes brought by alcohol.
Soon, the girl's face flushed slightly, and her chest rose and fell gently. She put down the glass and stopped.
Pulin did not force it, and continued to slowly fill the glass with the remaining wine.
The two sat on the conference table under the golden world tree, and could only hear the clear sound of pouring wine.
For a long time.
"I will probably sit here for another 20 years." Pulin said her decision lightly.
'Here' is the meeting hall of the Federal Central Council. The golden world tree behind them was also planted by Isanisha when the Federation was founded, and it has extremely important symbolic significance.
"Yeah." Tilan nodded slightly, without objection.
"Actually, I thought you would win." Pulin said what she had thought before.
"Yes, I am strong in doing things and give people an air of confidence and arrogance, but at that time I still felt that you would win."
"But what I care about is not the win or loss 20 years later, but whether the suppressed obsession in my heart can be fully relaxed and exerted. Even if the final result is failure, I will not regret it." As she spoke, she gently blew the wine in the glass in front of her and watched the wine boil instantly and ignite flames.
"As if I were self-destructing, I was determined to do whatever I wanted."
"No matter what."
"But the miracle is that I actually did it successfully without dying halfway."
"I began to understand what kind of existence those Sun-level singers in history were, why singers have such a high status in the Federation, and why those congressmen are so afraid of the birth of Sun-level singers."
"The power brought by power can smooth out any shadows in the heart, release and melt all regrets, and then become flat and firm."
"Now I am calm and open-minded, and I even have the energy to thank you for your efforts. If you return to the Federation, I am willing to give you half of my power and let the Federation experiment with some of your ideas." Pulin said. She was not completely ignorant of Tilan's affairs in the Sigma Mechanical Council.
In response, Tilan shook her head slightly.
"If you just want the technology in my hands, it's okay to give it to you, but I won't come." For her, fame, wealth and power are not something she cares about or needs.
"Really?" Pulin lay lightly on the conference table and looked up at the golden leaves above her head.
"Do you know how exciting it is when countless people revolve around your will and take action for your orders, as if the entire sea of stars is revolving in your hands?" She murmured, slowly raised her hand, and looked at the golden halo between her fingers.
"Being too detached from the world is not a good thing, Tilan."
"Do you know that if I have someone take you down now, you may never be able to leave the Flower Crown Star Region in your life." Pulin closed her eyes and spoke.
Hearing this, the girl in gorgeous clothes opposite turned her head and looked at the singer who closed her eyes and muttered, and shook her head slightly.
"You've drunk too much."
"I'm not drunk." She opened her eyes and sat up. Her eyes were like blooming red lotuses, staring straight at Tilan.
"You always naively give up power and easily let go of things that many people admire. This is not a kind of arrogance!" As she said this, she approached the black-haired girl in gorgeous clothes step by step and grabbed one of her wrists.
Tilan looked at the wrist that was holding her sleeve and arm, and felt like she was clamped by a red-hot iron. There was a faint blue smoke coming out of the cuffs.
"I'm not arrogant, I just don't want to argue with you about this." Tilan turned her head.
"Why don't you argue? Do you despise me? Or do you think you will always have enough room and can be patient enough to wait for that day to come."
In response, Tilan, who had turned her head away for a long time, turned around and sighed slightly at Pulin with anger in her eyes.
"Because once we argue, there will be no room to retreat and evade." The fight between the singing girls is actually cruel. Maybe the loser will not die, but the faith that has been gathered in the past will be completely shattered. This kind of injury is sometimes more painful than depriving life.
"Oh, how do you know if you don't try it?" Pulin laughed and let go of her hand.
"But it's too late now. There is no room for you to stand in the Federation. I am not the kind of singing girl who is generous enough to vacate my room for others."
"Since you are willing to give in and wait, then just watch me and watch me finish this magnificent life."
Having said this, the two did not talk anymore, but parted ways.
On the way out, Tilan walked in the empty corridor. In this solid fortress city, even the corridor seemed to be made of some kind of ancient bronze, which could reflect her face.
'It seems that your good intentions are not understood by others, Tilan.' The girl on the side copper wall talked to her.
"I know." The girl nodded slightly.
"She is a very proud person. I let her win by giving her the game directly, which is equivalent to depriving her of the achievement and pleasure of winning after fighting."
"As long as she doesn't defeat me head-on, the reluctance in her heart will be difficult to completely dissipate, so even if I give her the game, she will be unhappy and even hate me."
"You understand it very well, but why do you still do this?" The twins in the bronze mirror asked.
"There are not so many ways to have the best of both worlds in the world. If I defeat her directly, she will regret that her wish has not been fulfilled."
"Rather than saying that I let her, the real situation is that the Federation has accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction and emotions over the past hundreds of years, and it really needs to be vented, and I am not the kind of person who is unscrupulous."
"Since everyone needs it and she is just right, let her do it." Tilan replied quietly.
"But the way you act is that you are particularly arrogant. Haha, you are worthy of being my sister." The girl in the mirror blinked.
"There are indeed many similarities between our personalities, but you were too timid and inferior when you were a child, so you didn't show it."
"I don't want to call this kind of personality arrogant, as if everything must conform to the mainstream public and listen to other people's opinions to be humble."
"I would rather say that this is a choice I made after careful consideration. I did not escape the consequences of it. As for you, sister, your choice back then can't be called a careful consideration."
"No, no, no, I also thought about it carefully, but the accident of you made me misjudge. In the final analysis, I still don't believe my sister and think she is really a timid girl."
The two sisters quarreled in their soul consciousness on a daily basis. Although they occasionally quarreled, their relationship was indeed much better than before, and many of the barriers and alienations in the past were slowly melting away.
Leaving the federal meeting hall, Tilan came to the Golden Flame Flower Cathedral on the side, which is an institution dedicated to governing the singing girls.
Although she had publicly announced that she had given up her identity as a federal singing girl, no priest really stopped her outside and despised the girl.
"Lord Tilan, please come this way. The chief priest is waiting for you."
"Thank you." Tilan nodded.
Passing through the holy and elegant buildings of the Great Cathedral, Tilan saw many young priests on the road. They were probably new members who came in the past ten years and still had vitality. When they saw Tilan, these young priests were quite excited and did not have the calmness of the older priests.
Walking into the hall of the cathedral decorated with white gauze and gold silk curtains, Tilan saw an extremely old man. He was a little hunched, leaning on a golden staff, sitting on a chair in the middle of the hall.
"High Priest Xiong." Tilan nodded and saluted after entering the hall.
"Come in." The chief priest signaled the guards beside him to wait outside the door, and then there were only two people left in the hall.
"It's been twenty years, Tilan." Looking at the girl in front of him whose appearance had never changed, the old man's vicissitudes of life had a little nostalgia in his voice.
"Yes." Tilan came to the old man, gently stroked the back of his hand that looked like a dead tree, and then stood aside.
"I still remember that day fifty years ago, when I was praying in the temple, they told me that a young singer had awakened in the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region, so I hurriedly set off with my people..." Xiong recalled the past.
"You and Pulin awakened only two years apart. Although Yulandojia is playful and lazy, she is lucky to have two proud juniors like you." He jokingly commented on 'Green Snake' Yulandojia.
"Twenty years ago, we called you two the twin walls of the Federation inside the temple, two orbiting binary suns, which may have competition, but will also bring great vitality to the Federation." He narrated slowly.
"But what happened later..." He sighed.
"As to the issue of your identity and bloodline, the Holy Temple has not provided strong guarantees and proof. This is our dereliction of duty."
Tilan did not care about this, but was just curious: "Who on earth started this rumor back then? A lot of information about me has been kept confidential by the Inquisition."
"I don't know about this, because our Holy Temple is not a full-time intelligence agency, and its scope of activities is not wide." "
But I did some investigation afterwards and learned that the source of the news was not due to the leak of the Inquisition, but came from some other place. The other party may be an organization as ancient as ours."
"As old?" Tilan was a little surprised.
"Yes, in theory, everything in the Sixth Era was arranged by Her Highness Isanissa, and very few things could go beyond her preset scope."
"But there are always unexpected things, that is, the remnants of the new races in the Fifth Era, or their spiritual successors."
"Even though the Dark Sun fell, there are still many people following them. Even though the Federation has popularized the evil and sins of the Dark Sun, they still believe in that path and are still serving the legacy left by the Dark Sun." At this point, the high priest stared into the distance with turbid eyes and slowly stroked his beard.
"You should have heard of that special prophecy, and have seen the saint of 'Loranxia's Eternal Covenant' chanting the prophecy of doomsday."
"Many people don't know, and don't believe in this thing, but some people believe in the prophecy very devoutly, and think that this is an irresistible force of destiny, the will of the Star Crown is revealed, and to realize the prophecy is to realize the will of that highness."
"That princess left too many legends in the world. Each of her faces and identities are worshipped and believed by groups, and there are even conflicts between them."
"Although we don't understand why such a sad prophecy was born, people born in the Dark Ages believe that as long as they follow the prophecy, that princess will not abandon mankind, will once again respond to mankind's prayers and wake up from the Sea of Aijaka."
In this regard, Tilan just shook her head, looking at such an idea as if she were a child who had not yet grown up.
"So, those people, or organizations, spread rumors about my identity and bloodline to suppress and guide the people in the southern star region to protest and betray?"
"Yes, because it fits the description in the prophecy. The dragon vein system you built just fits the ancient Eastern legend."
"The blue bird holds a branch and falls to give birth to a country."
"You are descended from the blue phoenix lineage of the Five Phoenixes, and the dragon vein system can also create a new ecological environment and home for the future of mankind. They think you are the dark blue bird that stops at the branch in the prophecy."
"Since I have promised the prophecy to happen, who will be the next one?"
"The flame-feathered bird with orange-red feathers like fire is pierced by a sharp arrow." The chief priest Xi Wen slowly spoke the prophecy with a heavy tone.
(End of this chapter)
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