The rain stopped and fell, and stopped and stopped, intermittently until dusk.No one knows that amidst the patter of rain, the fate of the entire human empire is swaying violently between forks in the road.

It wasn't until the night cleared up, sitting in the heated palace room, that Jiang Jianming was relieved from the chill brought by the spring rain.

...or maybe it wasn't the chill brought by the weather.He sat by the window, with the knuckles of his index finger pressed against the faintly aching temple, and sighed heavily.

Last time learned the truth that human beings have been colonized by crystal particles. Although was shocked, was still excited after recovered and wanted to fight as hard as could.

But today, after being informed of the White Bird Project, and suddenly knowing the existence of those victims who are constantly being sacrificed, couldn't stop laughing.

Jiang Jianming thought to himself, perhaps he would have to wait until he actually returned to the front line of the distant interstellar battlefield to ease the heaviness.

"Headache?" Lai An came over and handed him a cup, "Have a drink."

"It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly know too much." Jiang Jianming looked out of the window in a daze, reached out and took a sip, and frowned bitterly——

He thought it was the routine of warming milk at night, but he didn't expect it to be medicine!

Jiang Jianming raised his eyes with some complaints, and was about to speak when he was stuffed with a honey candy by the crown prince, so he had to shut up.

Lai An wiped his fingertips with a handkerchief, sat over, and coaxed him: "When we go out to fight, win, and kill the crystal nest mother nucleus, the crystal disorder disease will disappear in all likelihood, and then we don't need to drink water."Medicine."

Jiang Jianming had no choice but to hold his sugar in his mouth and didn't speak, he thought to himself how could such a good thing happen.Even if he chooses to start a full-scale war, there is still a long way to go before victory. The race war may last for tens or hundreds of years, and he will definitely be the first to die.

He is not afraid of death.But after he dies, can Lai An, who has lost his lover before his eyes, still be as proud and bright as he is now, and will always move forward bravely?

But this is unavoidable, life and death are the pains that people have to go through in life, and it is impossible for your highness to pass through this... Jiang Jianming suppressed his wild thoughts, raised his head and smiled at Lai An: "Yes, then I won't die of illnessFor the rest of my life, just sit in front of the window of the White Emerald Palace, look at the roses, and read books in the sun."

His expression and tone were obviously perfunctory, but Lai An said happily: "That's good." He also said: "You said it yourself, remember it, if you dare to go back on your word, I will be..."

It's a pity that His Highness got stuck at this point, and couldn't think of what the other party could do by "being him".

Jiang Jianming couldn't help laughing, and drank the medicine with caramel, and put the cup back into Ryan's hand: "You made it, please wash it and return it to me."

...

That night, Jiang Jianming didn't sleep well, and he didn't wake up until noon the next day. His mental state was still not very good, and he couldn't even eat a few bites.

Lai An didn't want to let such a glass-like patient go out, but unfortunately he couldn't hold back the patient himself.When it was time to make an appointment with His Majesty the Emperor, Jiang Jianming still squeezed out some energy and changed into a full set of dresses. When he stepped onto the aircraft, his posture was straight, and outsiders could not see the slightest difference.

——As for the aircraft, of course it is no longer the aircraft it used to be.

If it wasn't for Lai An being the crown prince, no one in the military would dare to demand compensation from him. Jiang Jianming firmly believes that the combined annuities of the two of them may not be enough to pay for the daily smashed things and used-up mechas of His Royal Highness..

Before the banquet hall, they met Yuan Nagasawa.

The "Light of Disabled Humanity" of the Dominion stood with Deputy Speaker Lopez, holding a briefcase in his arms, with a worried expression.

His Highness Lai An and Colonel Jiang looked at each other with a tacit understanding, and couldn't help wondering: See what Lin Song means, tonight is to discuss important confidential matters about the White Bird Project and the future of mankind. It is not surprising that the deputy speaker of the Dominion knows the inside story, but whyWhy is Nagasawa here?

Jiang Jianming stuffed Lai An into the aircraft, leaned out half of his body, and said hello: "Your Excellency Lopez, the former young master?"

Lopez turned his head and saluted thoughtfully.Yuan Nagasawa flicked it like a frightened bird. When he saw Jiang Jianming, he looked around hastily, and then ran over in small steps.

"Your Excellency Jiang... No, Your Highness the Crown Prince." The young man saluted his chest, glanced around, and whispered, "After that day, have you not been angered by His Highness the Crown Prince?"

At this time, Lai An straightened up slowly from the shadows, with a blank expression on his face, and said quietly: "No."

In an instant, Hara Nagasawa trembled from his feet to his head: "!!"

...His little Highness is trying to think badly again.Jiang Jianming hooked the corner of his mouth, put his fist on his lips, and calmly restrained the urge to laugh.

"Your Highness is waiting for me here." He said softly to Lai An, raised his hand and pushed open the door of the aircraft.

After hearing Marshal Chen's words, thinking about it now, Yuan Nagasawa's reaction was so violent that day, perhaps he was overwhelmed by His Highness's spiritual coercion.

Jiang Jianming signaled Yuan Changze to walk a few steps aside with him, tried a few words between words, and got an affirmative answer.

"Your Highness..." After thinking about it, Jiang Jianming tried his best to say something sincerely, "He is actually not bad, but he is used to being unrestrained and has a bit of a bad temper."

I thought this kind of words were not convincing, but Yuan Nagasawa smiled shyly, with longing in his eyes, and whispered again and again: "I know, I know. His Highness Lai An is the hero and belief of the empire.you too."

Jiang Jianming once again lamented the child's innocence, the so-called simple and easy to fool is like this...

Thinking of Diana again, if the doll lady of the Lance family is a red-eyed rabbit who shrinks timidly in the corner and dare not move, then the little boy Yuan is like a lamb, who will run with you happily after picking up a handful of hair and cheating casuallyup.

After stopping the aircraft, the four of them walked towards the banquet hall together.

The sound of footsteps criss-crossed on the winding path, Yuan Changze kept looking towards Lai An with guilt, and couldn't help but talk to Jiang Jianming.

"Your Highness Jiang, I have heard about your deeds. I am ashamed to say that at first I did not believe that disabled humans could accomplish such a series of feats... How did you do it?"

Jiang Jianming glanced at Yuan Nagasawa lightly, he had heard this kind of question too much.There is no point in answering, because his experience is not imitated by other disabled people - nor is it worth imitating.

But he also understands the desire and confusion in the words of this famous young man known as the light of the disabled, which is also the desire and confusion of the vast majority of disabled people.

Jiang Jianming thought for a while, and slowly told about how he was once blocked by a group of imperial people on a street corner, asking if he was a patient of crystal disorder.

"They were emotional at the time because they found that their dreams were shattered, and that under normal circumstances disabled humans could not compete with new humans after all, and they were disheartened by this reality." Jiang Jianming said, "But I have a different idea."

Hara Nagasawa's eyes were involuntarily drawn to him, and he saw Jiang Jianming's pale face hidden in the dark night, and his thin and pale lips opened and closed.

"More than 400 years ago, during the scuffle at the base where civilization collapsed, the lives of disabled human beings were as cheap as grass, and their lives were worse than that of livestock."

"More than a hundred years ago, during the old imperial regime, disabled humans were still considered inferior people with genetic damage."

Jiang Jianming coughed twice, and pulled his neckline: "At that time, who would have thought that today's handicapped human beings could walk dignifiedly on the sunny street?"

"I'm a special case, and I used some unrespectable means to achieve my goal. But since there is me now, there will be others in the future. The road will come out step by step, and it will go further..."

"Whether it is a human being with a crystal bone, a human being without a crystal bone, or a human being no matter what it will become in the future."

Hara Nagasawa was a little confused: "In the future?"

Jiang Jianming raised his eyes to look at the starry sky, and said to himself: "Well, in the future, there will be a future."

Lai An, who was walking in front with Lopez and listening to Jiang Jianming silently, looked back at this moment and saw the melancholy eyes of the other party.

A few seconds later, the crown prince stretched out his hand to wrap Jiang Jianming around his waist and moved forward, preventing him from talking to Yuan Nagasawa any more.

...

Sure enough, there were no other guests today, and the banquet hall was very empty.When the four of them walked in slowly, the light of the three-story golden chandelier was shining on the female emperor sitting on the top.

Lin Song looked down at the people who came in, leaning against the throne with crossed scepters and long knives.

There was no usual playfulness in her expression, but a storm seemed to be brewing in the depths of her eyes.

"Your Majesty the Emperor." Lopez saluted deeply, and when the female deputy speaker raised her face, her expression was equally serious.

In this atmosphere, the original Nagasawa did not dare to move, only Crown Prince Lai An calmly pulled Jiang Jianming forward and sat on the seat below the emperor's right hand side.

Lin Song spoke at this moment.

"I have decided to go to war."

She said it lightly, and her eyebrows were also casual.

Lai An and Jiang Jianming had already prepared in their hearts, Yuan Nagasawa was at a loss, but Luna Lopez was stiff.

Lin Song slowly changed his posture, reclined on the emperor's throne, and sat with his legs crossed.

Her eyes were faint: "No one can predict what will happen in the future, but the key point that determines victory or defeat will be the will of our human beings as a whole. We always have to fight with our backs, and looking at the past and future, now is the best time."time."

"..." His Royal Highness Lai An and Colonel Jiang each lowered their faces, and there were indescribable expressions on their faces at the same time.

Good guy, thought His Majesty the Emperor was serious today, but the lines for declaring war were all made up of the statements made by the two of them yesterday...

Vice-Chairman Lopez naturally didn't know the details, she suddenly touched her chest and lowered her head, and said loudly: "Your Majesty's courage makes me admire."

Lin Song smiled, waved his hand, tilted his head and asked, "So, where's your courage? To be honest, I'm a little surprised that the former speaker didn't come here in person."

The original speaker...Jiang Jianming's heart is like a bright mirror, and he thought to himself that it is true. The high-level officials of the Dominion have known about the problem of crystal particles for a long time, and they have communicated with the royal family secretly about it for a long time.back.

Even in the emperor's style, maybe the report he wrote on Crystal Cult and Crystal Particles before did not sink into the sea, but was sent directly to the desk of the Speaker of the Dominion!

Lopez's words were sonorous: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the Dominion has been a firm marcher from the beginning to the end. Since the Empire is determined to go to war, we will abide by the agreement."

As she spoke, she took the briefcase from Hara Nagasawa, took out a chip box and a paper document, and placed them on the long table in the middle with her own hands.

"From today onwards," Lopez said, "the Glorious Dominion voluntarily returns its autonomy and fully obeys His Majesty's will to match the upcoming wartime situation. From then on, there will be no Dominion, only the Glorious Star City of the Human Empire."

Hara Nagasawa suddenly exclaimed: "—Your Excellency, Deputy Speaker!?"

In a blink of an eye, the young man's face turned pale.He couldn't understand what Lopez and the emperor were talking about, he could only vaguely feel that it was about an important war... But he could still hear the words "return the autonomy" clearly!

Lopez remained unmoved, and continued: "In addition, the Dominion will also offer our sincerity to His Majesty and the Empire of Man: Matrix 002 of the Matrix Project."

The corners of Jiang Jianming's eyes tightened, and his heart beat violently!

He subconsciously looked at the crown prince with a cold face. At the beginning...Lian took him to the depths of the Black Shark base and took out a chip.

When it was inserted into the instrument, he could still remember the first line displayed clearly——

Substrate No. 000-Lian Keos generated data files!

Lopez turned around slowly, the light of Kanazawa swayed over her slightly dark skin, and the deputy speaker looked at Hara Nagasawa who stayed behind her.

"Young Master Yuan, I asked you that day."

She said word by word: "If given a chance, would you be willing to be one of those heroes who fight for human civilization?"

"You answered me yes, yes?"

Suddenly, Lai An and Jiang Jianming realized something.Shocked, they unanimously stabbed their sharp eyes at Hara Nagasawa who was standing below!

The fair and handsome young man was stunned, his eyes full of confusion, "...huh?"

He didn't know what happened, but he did feel a chill go through his body.

Jiang Jianming's face was as calm as ice.However, in the shadows, his right hand was already tightly clenched.

Should have guessed.Under the sea of flames engulfing the entire civilization, how can innocent flowers survive.

It was they who decided to light the war.

Then naturally we should welcome this cruel flame.