Early the next morning, Ming Jiang went to check Alois' room after getting up, but he still didn't come back.

After Ming Jiang washed up, he placed the dried ginger in a place where it could be exposed to the sun, and then left the dormitory.

He went to a coffee shop near the botanical garden, and Sang Nanfeng and Ross had already booked a place here in advance.

Ming Jiang found them by the window, and as soon as they sat down, Celia hurried over.

"Sorry, I'm late." Celia sat down next to Ming Jiang.

Rose crossed his legs carelessly: "If we're not late, we're only a few minutes early."

Celia chuckled: "I'm just being polite."

Ross: ...

Sang Nanfeng stopped the fight between the two of them: "Okay, the places are determined by fighting on the competition stage. Those who successfully get the places can have the opportunity to form a team. That is to say, one of the four of us must enter the front row."Only the top ten will have a chance to qualify for the competition."

"My force is not strong, who will fight, Rose or Celia?"

Ross said, "Isn't Jiang Jiang going?"

Ming Jiang said calmly: "According to the facts, I'm in the plant department, and you and Celia are in the combat department."

Ross thought to himself, your combat power is more terrifying than the combat department.

Celia is somewhat interested in the competition stage, and while she is eager to try, she is very worried that she will not get a place.

Celia didn't speak for a long time. After thinking for a long time, she decided to ask Sang Nanfeng: "According to your data, what is the probability of success if I fight?"

"15%" Sang Nanfeng reported the most authentic data.

Ross frowned and asked, "What about me and Jiang Jiang?"

"8% and 30%," Sang Nanfeng said.

"Hiss." Ross was a little stunned, "Jiang Jiang's mental strength is S-level, so there is only a 30% chance?"

Sang Nanfeng pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose: "You know, a person's fighting power is not only based on mental strength, but also the mental body is very important."

"Ming Jiang's spiritual body is a plant-based vine, and the attack ability of the vine is weak."

Ming Jiang, who was being discussed, drank his coffee without changing his face, leisurely looking at the botanical garden not far from the window.

And Rose is still trying to struggle: "But Jiang Jiang's plant system is very special, his mental body can temporarily control the mind."

Sang Nanfeng stated the facts: "This is a trump card, but the senior students are much stronger than us. As long as you use it once, your opponents in the future will definitely guard against Ming Jiang. You know, as long as you are guarded in advance, Ming JiangIt is very difficult to use this characteristic of Jiang's spiritual body."

Rose's face was sullen, a little disappointed.

"Ah, is it possible that we really can only watch from the sidelines?"

"Of course not." Ming Jiang took a sip of the coffee, the bitterness of the coffee seemed to have no effect on him, Ming Jiang's expression was still so indifferent.

Rose has seen Ming Jiang like this before. Before the last match with Karl, Ming Jiang also acted so calmly.

"Can Jiang Jiang succeed?"

"Eighty percent." Ming Jiang said.

"Basically..." Sang Nanfeng thought that Ming Jiang would not lie, so only his own data had a problem, "Where did the 50% increase?"

Ming Jiang looked at the swaying liquid in the coffee cup, smiled, but did not speak.

Of course it is experience, the students under the careful protection of the Lotus Empire do not have his experience.

The fighting knowledge learned from books is far inferior to Ming Jiang's fighting skills mastered in the struggle between life and death.

Ming Jiang didn't learn any kind of Sanda or boxing systematically, but he had the experience of besieging more than a dozen people, and had the past of erupting fighting power on the verge of life and death.

Sang Nanfeng wriggled his lips to say something, but heard Ming Jiang ask him.

"Is life safe in the remote galaxies of the Lotus Empire?"

Sang Nanfeng's body froze immediately, probably thinking of Ming Jiang's birth environment, and also understood where the 50% probability increased.

With a hoarse voice, Sang Nanfeng still answered Ming Jiang's question: "The past few years have been stable. However, before His Royal Highness Cross came to power, the old nobles were not proper people.When something happens, they will only retreat, and remote galaxies are invaded by Zerg."

Rose and Celia listened quietly.

As he spoke, Sang Nanfeng's voice gradually became soft as if floating: "The venue of the last simulated match was a simulation of the real experience of a remote galaxy."

"The Zerg invaded, and the Federation tried to provoke a war in the remote galaxy. At that time, the population of the remote galaxy was greatly reduced, and it has not grown back to the population of twenty years ago."

Ming Jiang guessed something during the competition, so he wasn't too shocked when he heard Sang Nanfeng say that.

He supported his face with one hand, and stirred the coffee with the other hand, and he didn't know whether it was to kill time or emotions.

Or maybe, having grown up on a garbage planet, he has already been wiped out of his negative emotions.

"On the garbage planet, in addition to dealing with the Zerg invasion at any time, there is also endless chaos." Ming Jiang's voice seemed to be telling someone else's story.

"It wasn't until the Lotus Empire promulgated a policy to help the nearby unnamed planets, and under the deterrence of the imperial army, the Zerg invasion was restrained."

Ming Jiang squinted his eyes, gradually immersed in memories: "But the Lotus army will not be stationed in non-imperial territory. Once the army withdraws, the chaos on the garbage planet will only double. The invasion of the Zerg has decreased, and everyone is fighting for territory.When it comes to power and power, it becomes even more unscrupulous."

Ming Jiang opened his starry blue eyes, and finally had a normal mocking mood: "In that kind of place, many people like my face. When I was young, my adoptive father helped me stop all kinds of troubles. Later, my adoptive father passed away.I killed a lot of people."

When he was talking, Ming Jiang's mouth curled up slightly, and the sarcasm at the corner of his mouth made his picturesque face come alive.

There was no one around where Ming Jiang and the others were sitting, and after he finished speaking, there was a dead silence all around.

Sang Nanfeng was the first to break the silence. He said, "It looks like there will be some special topics between us."

"I will also participate in the trials, but I probably won't be able to survive the first round." Sang Nanfeng replaced the wine with coffee, "Take a sip and wish us success."

Celia and Rose were infected by the emotion and atmosphere. They picked up the coffee and took a big sip, and then they were so bitter that they wrinkled their faces.

Ming Jiang propped his face and looked out the window, the mocking corner of his mouth slowly turned into a normal smile.

——

In Lotus Palace, Carlos sat in the study all year round and dealt with various affairs.

Tan Taichao knocked on the door and entered, he walked to the table, naturally picked a chair and sat down: "Father."

Cross took the time to raise his eyes: "Come?"

"Yeah." Tan Taichao's posture was very relaxed, "Father called me over, did he want to ask about Dad, or to discuss Alois's problem."

For this precocious eldest son, Cross didn't say much, rubbed the center of his brows, and threw an anonymous terminal to him without saying a word.

"Let's see."

Tan Taichao unlocked the terminal with doubts. He knew that this kind of anonymous terminal was used by teams with special missions to store data and investigate information.

As soon as he opened the terminal, the name of the HOPE mission jumped in front of his eyes.

Tantai Chaoke knew this mission very well. Although he thought that the starship numbered AP1618 crashed into the wormhole and was destroyed, all hope was gone, but he would still quietly pay attention to this investigation team.

Since his father will show him some investigation results, there must be new information.

Tan Taichao was a little excited suddenly, but he learned mental skills very well, and there was no emotional change on his face.

Tan Taichao continued to look down, and when he saw the repairman, his arms slid down onto the armrests of the chair as if he lost his strength.

Cross threw all his weight on the back of the chair, crossed his hands on his stomach, and leaned on the back of the chair in a daze.

Before throwing the terminal to Tantai Chao, Cross had read the survey results countless times in the past month.The heart that was broken twenty years ago finally has the hope of healing.

"Should I tell Dad about this?" Tantai rushed to his heart and asked the most important question at the moment.

Cross looked at Tantai Chao sharply: "What's your opinion?"

Tan Taichao said bluntly: "I suggest you show it to Dad."

Closton stayed: "Why?"

"I know what you think. You don't want Dad to worry too much, and you don't want Dad's hope to be in vain." Tan Taichao put the terminal back on the desktop, and he continued.

"But father, carrying everything on your shoulders without saying a word will not make Dad happy. Dad was with you because of love, and he has the ability to bear everything, instead of waiting until everything is over, thenLet others tell him what happened."

Cross straightened up sluggishly. It wasn't the first time he had heard such remarks, and Julver had also advised him to do so.

But Cross always insisted on not wanting Tan Taijing to feel the pressure, especially those things were all caused by him.

Tan Taichao saw through Kloss's thoughts: "Dad had already considered everything when he decided to be with you. Yes, your situation was very complicated at that time, but Dad was not afraid to face it all with you."

"You always want to carry everything on your shoulders, but you forget that you are not a god, and even a god sometimes does wrong things." Tantai Chao sighed softly, "It turns out that you did wrong, The price for the third brother is really too high."

This kind of deeper words were things Julver dared not say to Cross so bluntly in the past, and it would be much better if Tantai Chao came up with them.

Cross was silent, and after a while, he said hoarsely: "I was wrong."

"It's your fault." Tantai Chao was not used to Klos, he frowned and said, "So, I advise you to copy this terminal and send it to Dad. If you find the third brother without telling him, you won'tLet Papa forgive you."

"I see."

After Tan Taichao said all this, he left the study.

In the empty study room, Cross took off his clothes and stood up. He was wearing the emperor's costume of the Lotus Empire over the years, which was improved from the Lotus military uniform, and he looked more slender and powerful when he wore it.

With military boots on the study floor, Cross walked to the French windows and looked out at a tree with large white clusters of flowers.

It was Tan Taijing's favorite wooden hydrangea. They once drank tea and hugged together under this tree, expounding their expectations for the future.

But now, there is no one under the tree.

The author has something to say:

I just discovered that the two spiritual bodies seem to be written backwards in the copywriting, embarrassing