The craft sails out of the starship.

When he came to Lauren alone, Jiang Jianming didn't carry a gun, didn't bring a folding mecha, and even took off his wrist phone.

"I'm here to negotiate," the black-haired young man slowly raised his hands, unrestrained, and turned around to show the other party clearly, "Or you can change your mind and exchange it as a hostage."

"Exchanging a general's daughter for a newly crowned crown princess, shouldn't be considered a loss-making deal, right?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Princess."

On the opposite side, the middle-aged man sitting in the mecha smiled, and Lauren said pointedly: "Last time in the villa, you told me that you are not the princess."

Jiang Jianming replied frankly: "Times have changed, and now it is."

He was manipulating the simple aircraft under his hand, and continued to drive, and he had completely escaped from the mecha formation.

The soldiers behind Jin Rilun couldn't hold back their breath, and shouted helplessly: "Colonel Jiang!"

Jiang Jianming pushed open the hatch of the aircraft. At this time, he was less than 50 meters away from Lauren, and entered the attackable range of the latter's crystal bone.

Behind the two of them was the still unceasing hail of bullets, and the decadent day cleaned up the last few beams of light, and was about to bury them on the other side of the horizon.

Jiang Jianming said: "Give Xie Yinxing to us. You have also seen the attitude of the commander-in-chief of the empire. It is useless to hold her hostage; even if you take her to the far interstellar world, Major General Xie is not the one who abolishes the public for personal reasons."

Lauren's expression seemed to be a smile but not a smile, but the depths of his pupils were gloomy.

Beside him, another man's voice came from the internal communication of the mecha: "Chaos, don't be fooled."

"I'm here to warn you, the cripple in front of you is not a pawn you can control...but now is your chance to kill him."

"..."

Behind, Jin Rilun's mecha soldiers stared at the front, all of them were so nervous that their tongues were dry and they were sweating.

...It's too risky. If the other party suddenly has murderous intentions, Colonel Jiang is a cripple... This is tantamount to putting his life into the opponent's palm!

The "Bishop of Chaos" of Crystal Cult - Gerhard Lauren had a calm expression. He slowly put his hands behind his back and asked, "Destroy the bishop, is your words the archbishop's will?"

The voice on the other side was silent for a few seconds.

Su: "...This is my personal advice to you."

Lauren looked up again, and said to Jiang Jianming: "Unfortunately, Your Excellency the Crown Princess. The conflict between Crystal Cult and the Empire is irreconcilable, and you are destined to not be able to obtain any negotiation results from us."

Jiang Jianming bent the corners of his eyes indifferently, and the red light of the setting sun shone at the base of his eyelashes: "So, what about the happy paradise you mentioned, Mr. Lauren?"

Lauren's expression changed slightly, and the corner of his mouth twitched.The young man in front of him said slowly, "Am I also doomed not to get it?"

"No," Lauren raised his head calmly, "You can get it, anyone can. The Holy Crystal Cult is dedicated to this matter."

Su: "Chaos, if you don't kill him, you will be the one who dies."

Lauren laughed, "Death? I'm not afraid of death."

"If you beg for salvation from crystal particles, you will be redeemed equally, and the gate of paradise will always be open."

Lauren looked at Jiang Jianming again, her eyebrows stretched, "But the road to paradise has no return, if you still want to go with me, come with me."

Jiang Jianming raised his eyebrows, and quickly filtered Lauren's nagging tone into adult words in his heart.

Negotiation is impossible, and peace talks are useless; if you don’t mind setting foot on the road of no return, it’s not impossible to talk to you about my ideas, but after the chat, you have to die—in the name of redemption.

"Colonel Jiang, come back quickly!" Jin Rilun called him in a low voice behind him.

"The traitors are not going to talk, you can't go with them..."

"..."

Jiang Jianming pressed the center of his brows with a headache, pondered for a while, and lifted his right hand swiftly: "The mechas are scattered, all go to support Star City, don't follow me."

He looked at Xie Yinxing who was in a coma, and said to Lauren: "Leave the child, and I will go with you."

When Jiang Jianming stepped on Lauren's mecha, and then rose into the sky together, and flew towards the battleship of the Crystal Cult in the Yu Region, the vast night also fell.

Surprisingly, the atmosphere inside the mecha was not so tense.Lauren even thoughtfully prepared simple food and drinking water for Jiang Jianming, and turned on the shielding function of the mech against external crystal particles to the maximum.

"Your Excellency, I have always admired you."

Lauren sat across from him, "You have a will worthy of perseverance. Even though you are a crippled human being, you are still trying to fight against this unfair world. That's why I'm willing to tell you these words."

His eyes were burning, and he leaned forward, "I hope you can understand me."

Jiang Jianming lowered his head and smiled, "I'm here, just say what you have to say."

Suddenly his shoulders sank, and it was Lauren who put his right hand up. The look in the man's eyes became faint, and the emotion was similar to some kind of pity.

"Please don't be angry, what I want to tell you is that your confrontation is meaningless."

"Human pursuit of equality is like running towards a mirage, a hypocritical road that can never be reached."

Lauren whispered, "Because the original sin of injustice is engraved in the racial instinct of human beings."

The corners of Jiang Jianming's eyes twitched. When Lauren said the first sentence, he subconsciously began to predict the next topic that the other party would raise in his mind.

The source of inequality?

Natural individual differences, competition for survival, expansion of desires, private ownership, class... These words passed through his mind like a storm.On the opposite side, Lauren shook his head as if he had seen through it.

"No," Lauren shook her head with eager eyes, "No, Your Excellency."

"You must have thought of something, but that's just the appearance, we have to go deeper, deeper."

"This original sin lies in the fact that human beings, no, not only human beings, but all advanced carbon-based organisms bred from the blue mother star are like this-they are independent individuals with separated thinking."

"..." Jiang Jianming fell silent.

In the dark night, the flickering artillery fire was left behind.The mech escaped from the atmosphere of Aslan Star City and headed for the universe.

Soon, Crystal Cult starships arrive to meet them.The shell of the starship is bare metal, which gives people a kind of cold and dead mental pressure after watching it for a long time.

The moment the mech drove into the taxiway, shadows shrouded Jiang Jianming's pale face, and he raised his eyes: "Thinking, split?"

Bang—the door of the starship slammed shut behind him.

Opposite him, Lauren's face was also blurred, but the man stood up in the darkness, his voice trembling: "Not bad."

"Separation of thinking is the culprit of the so-called 'beast nature', but low-level beasts are only driven by instinct. They neither understand the concept of justice nor what evil is. Only when one of the races has a certain amount of intelligence..."

"At that time, they will never be free from the original sin of 'creating injustice.' I'm talking about human beings."

"The incompatibility of thinking breeds a steady stream of selfish desires and personal relationships, which also breeds a steady stream of evil. We love ourselves more than strangers forever, and our children are always better than strangers' children. Love yourselfIt is always better to love a country that is hostile than to love a country that is hostile...Human beings are doomed not to be able to truly empathize."

"Under this premise, all efforts for peace and equality are the charity of the strong to the weak. This is a fragile, hypocritical charity game that can be withdrawn at any time."

"Isn't it a glorious era at the end of the old blue mother star era? But once the black wave radiation comes, the civilization that has accumulated for thousands of years will fall apart in a blink of an eye."

"Man kills man, man enslaves man, and man defines a dual hierarchy of 'nobles and commoners', 'novice and handicapped', exploiting and oppressing as much as they can."

Lauren let out a long sigh, "...how sad."

Having said that, the former Prime Minister of the Empire, Bishop Lauren, slowly turned his gaze to the opposite side.

A black-haired young man in a golden sun military uniform sat on the seat, and he was silent until he heard this.The mecha has already flown into the depths of the starship along the cold gray taxiway, gradually slowing down until it stops.

"Then," Jiang Jianming raised his hand and gently pinched the center of his brows, closing his eyes and exhaling, "Have you found any way to get rid of this natural characteristic of the race?"

Under the pressure of this extreme environment, he was consciously restraining his thoughts from being disturbed, even though every word the man in front of him uttered was with the force of an electric shock.

Lauren pushed open the hatch of the mecha, and made a "please" gesture.

"We can talk slowly. If you are ready not to return, just follow me out. But until then, please leave the monitor with you."

Jiang Jianming smiled helplessly, took out the tiny monitor pinned behind his neckline, and put it in Lauren's hand.

The latter crushed it in the palm of his hand with the crystal bone, and his face was still kind: "Follow me."

The two got off the mecha, and Jiang Jianming was half a step behind Lauren, observing the surrounding environment casually.

The interior style of the crystal church starship is highly unified with the exterior. Whether it is the deck, walkway, automatic door or the walls on both sides, they are basically iron gray, which is obviously monotonous and cold.

The guards along the way are very tight, and there is an iris lock just a few steps away, and there is no flaw in it.

The rest of the crew members on this starship should be fanatics of the Crystal Cult. When they walk around, they walk in regular steps. When they see Bishop Lauren, they bow their heads and say hello. They are as orderly as soldiers, but they are more devout than soldiers.

Except for the earnest expression when facing the bishop, the expressions of this group of people are mostly sad and joyless, and they do not talk in private; they wear uniform gray clothes, which are combat uniforms from the design point of view, butEach of them had a small piece of crystal pinned to their chest, and Jiang Jianming thought it was a religious instrument worn by crystal believers for the time being.

Just walking and watching like this, Jiang Jianming was sure in less than a minute: this group of Crystal Cult rebels is by no means a motley army organized randomly, but a real trained armed force.

Lauren asked him casually at this moment: "How is Your Excellency Audrey Lance?"

Jiang Jianming didn't know whether the other party knew about the three generations of tranquilizers, and he couldn't keep it a secret for too long.

But he still cautiously did not let go, but showed a faint pain just right.

Sure enough, Lauren confirmed that Audrey was dead, nodded, and said in a relieved tone: "She is in a state of acute disorder, isn't she? This is also inevitable."

"Disabled humans want to pretend to be new humans... Well, I won't say it's impossible. In peaceful times, as long as she is cautious and smart enough, she can naturally pretend for decades. However, once war comes, try to match the world's rulesThe disabled human beings who fight will inevitably be crushed."

"She didn't die in the civil strife during the New Year's Eve last time, so she died in the battle of Aslan today; if she didn't die today, she would have died in one of the next turmoil."

Lauren smiled, and led Jiang Jianming through another gray mechanical door, "But at least, she was freed before you and went to that happy paradise. I am sincerely happy for her."

Paradise, the word comes up again.Jiang Jianming raised his eyes and asked indifferently: "What do you mean by paradise?"

After they walked through the door, they saw the wide bridge. The huge curved portholes are now visible, and the naked eye can directly see the Yu Region outside.

Large computers in operation are displayed on the left and right, and the escalator is ahead, and the mechanical door on the top is opened, which should be the central command room.

At this point, Lauren didn't continue walking, but turned around and stood still, with his hands behind his back, with a half smile on his face.

"Your Excellency Jiang, I guess, no one has told you some... secrets about this world before."

"Did you know that crystal particles are conscious?"

In the first reaction, Jiang Jianming doubted his ears, and frowned, "What?"

But he soon came back to his senses, as if a white arrow had penetrated his mind!

No, crystal particles...

There is some kind of induction between crystal particles, which is indeed a consensus accepted by the scientific community.

The reason why the crystalline species can control the crystal particles in the distance to condense into real crystals, and the chaotic state of the crystal particles is contagious... This is all because of the quantum induction between the crystal particles. Diana is explaining the spiritual consciousness projection technologyWhen said something similar.

But awareness?

"Have you thought of anything?" Lauren nodded, "Then you may also accept that crystal particles are alive?"