The air vehicle drove out of the starship.
When Jiang Jianming came alone to the front of Laurent, he did not have a gun, did not bring a folding mecha, and even took off his wrist device.
“I’m here to negotiate,” the black-haired young man slowly raised his hands, calm and composed, turned around to show the other side, “or you can change your mind and treat it as a hostage exchange.”
“Use a general’s daughter in exchange for a newly crowned crown princess, it should not be a losing deal, right?”
“Your Highness the Crown Princess.”
Across, the middle-aged man sitting in the mecha smiled, Laurent said meaningfully, “Last time at my house, you also told me that you are not the crown princess.”
Jiang Jianming responded generously: “Times have changed, now it is.”
He continued to drive the simple air vehicle under his hand, and had completely left the mecha soldier formation.
Behind him, the soldiers of the Golden Sun Wheel couldn’t help but yell in a loss. “Colonel Jiang!”
Jiang Jianming pushed open the door of the air vehicle, at this time he was less than fifty meters away from Laurent, and entered the attack range of the latter’s crystal bone.
Behind the two of them was the still ceaseless gunfire, and the setting sun took away the last few strands of residual light, about to bury into the other end of the horizon.
Jiang Jianming said, “Give Xie Yinxing to us. You have also seen the attitude of the empire’s commander in chief, holding her hostage is useless; even if you take her to the Far Star, General Xie is not a person who abandons official duties due to private affairs.”
Laurent’s expression seemed to be smiling but not smiling, but it was very gloomy in the depths of his pupils.
Beside him, another man’s voice came from the internal communication of the mecha in a gloomy tone. “Chaos, don’t be fooled.”
“I’m here to warn you, this disabled human in front of you is not a chess piece you can control…but now is an opportunity, kill him.”
“..…”
Behind, the mecha soldiers of the Golden Sun Wheel stared ahead, all of them were so nervous that their tongues were dry and cold sweat was falling.
…It’s too risky. If the other side suddenly has a killing intent, Colonel Jiang, a disabled human…This is equivalent to completely putting his life in the other’s hands!
The “Bishop of Chaos” of the Crystal Cult- Gerhard Laurent was calm, he slowly put his hands behind him, and asked, “Bishop of Destruction, is your word the will of the Archbishop?”
The voice on the other side was silent for a few seconds.
Su: “…This is my personal advice to you.”
Laurent looked up again and said to Jiang Jianming. “I’m sorry, Your Highness the Crown Princess. The contradictions between the Crystal Cult and the Empire are irreconcilable, and you are destined to not get any negotiation results from us.”
Jiang Jianming casually curled his eyes, and the red light of the setting sun flickered at the root of his eyelashes. “So, what about the happy paradise you mentioned, Your Excellency Laurent?”
Laurent’s expression changed slightly, and the corner of his mouth twitched. The young man in front of him slowly said, “Am I also destined to not get it?”
“No,” Laurent calmly raised his head, “You can get it, anyone can, the holy Crystal Cult is committed to this.”
Su: “Chaos, if you don’t kill him, you will die.”
Laurent laughed, “Death? I’m not afraid of death.”
“If you beg the crystal particles for salvation, you will be redeemed equally, and the door of paradise will always be open.”
Laurent looked at Jiang Jianming again, his eyebrows and eyes relaxed, “But there is no way back to paradise. If you still want to go with me, just follow me.”
Jiang Jianming raised his eyebrows, and quickly filtered Laurent’s mysterious tone into human words in his heart.
Negotiations are impossible, and talks are not possible; if you don’t mind embarking on a road of no return, it’s not impossible to chat with you about my philosophy, but after chatting, you have to die—euphemistically called redemption.
“Colonel Jiang, you come back quickly!” There was a Golden Sun Wheel behind him lowering his voice and calling him.
“The rebels are not ready to talk, you can’t go with them…”
“……”
Jiang Jianming pressed his forehead with a headache, pondered for a moment, and swiftly raised his right hand. “Mechas disperse, all go to support the Star City, don’t follow me.”
He looked at Xie Yinxing who was unconscious and said to Laurent, “Leave the child behind, and I will go with you.”
****
When Jiang Jianming stepped on Laurent’s mecha, rose into the sky with it, and flew towards the Crystal Cult’s battleship in the universe, the vast night also fell.
Unexpectedly, the atmosphere inside the mecha was not so tense. Lauren even considerately prepared simple food and water for Jiang Jianming, and turned the mecha’s shielding function against external crystal particles to the maximum.
“Your Excellency, I have always admired you.”
Laurent sat across from him, “You have a persevering will that is worth persevering. Even if you are a disabled human, you are still trying to fight against this unfair world. So these words, I am willing to talk to you.”
His eyes were bright, and he leaned forward, “I hope you can understand me.”
Jiang Jianming lowered his head and smiled, “I’m here, just say anything.”
Suddenly his shoulder sank, it was Laurent who put his right hand on it, the look in this man’s eyes became gloomy, and the emotion was similar to some kind of pity.
“Please don’t be angry, what I want to tell you is that your resistance is meaningless.”
“The pursuit of equality by humans is like running towards a mirage, it is a hypocritical road that can never be reached.”
Laurent said in a low voice, “Because the original sin of injustice is engraved in the racial instinct of humans.”
Jiang Jianming’s eyes twitched. When Laurent said the first sentence, he had already subconsciously started to predict the topic that the other party would throw out next.
The root of inequality?
Innate individual differences, survival competition, desire expansion, private ownership, class…These words went through a round in his mind like a storm. But Laurent on the opposite side seemed to see through these and shook his head.
“No,” Laurent shook his head, his eyes eager, “No, Your Excellency.”
“You must have thought of something, but those are all appearances, we have to go deeper, deeper.”
“This original sin lies in the fact that humans, no, not just humans, all higher carbon-based organisms that have proliferated from the Blue Mother Star are like this—they are independent individuals with split thinking.”
“…..” Jiang Jianming fell silent.
In the dim night, the flickering gunfire was thrown behind. The mecha left the atmosphere of Aslan Star City and rushed towards the universe.
Soon, the starship of the Crystal Cult came to greet them. The shell of the starship was exposed metal, and if one looked at it for a long time, it gave people a cold and dead mental pressure.
The moment the mecha drove into the taxiway, the shadow enveloped Jiang Jianming’s slightly pale face, and he raised his eyes. “Thinking, split?”
Bang–the door of the starship slammed shut behind him.
Across from him, Laurent’s face also blurred, but the man stood up in the dark, his voice trembling. “Yes.”
“The split of thinking is the culprit of the so-called ‘beastliness’, but low-level beasts are only driven by instinct. They neither understand the concept of justice nor understand what is evil. Only when one of them has a certain intelligence…”
“At that time, they will never be able to get rid of the ‘original sin of creating injustice’. What I’m talking about is humans.”
“The non-communication of thinking breeds endless private desires and private feelings, and also breeds endless evil. We always love ourselves more than strangers, love our children more than strangers’ children, love our country more than hostile countries… Humans are destined to not truly empathize.”
“Under this premise, all efforts for peace and equality are the strong’s charity to the weak. This is a fragile, hypocritical, and charitable game that can be taken back at any time.”
“The end of the Old Blue Mother Star era, wasn’t it a glorious era? But once the black wave radiation came, the civilization that has accumulated for thousands of years fell apart in a blink of an eye.”
“People kill people, people enslave people, people have established the dual class system of ‘nobles and civilians’, ‘new people and remnant people’, and are doing their best to exploit and oppress.”
Laurent sighed long, “…how sad.”
Speaking of this, the former Prime Minister of the Empire—Bishop Laurent, slowly cast his gaze across.
The black-haired young man in a Golden Sun Wheel military uniform sat in his seat, and he was silent all the way here. The mecha had flown deep into the starship along the cold gray taxiway, gradually slowing down until it stopped.
“So,” Jiang Jianming raised his hand and gently pinched his eyebrows, closed his eyes and exhaled, “Have you found a way to get rid of this racial destiny?”
Under the pressure of this extreme environment, he consciously restrained his thinking from being disturbed, even if every word the man in front of him uttered carried the power of an electric shock.
Laurent pushed open the door of the mecha and made a “please” gesture.
“We can talk slowly. If you are ready to go, just follow me. But before that, please leave the listener with you.”
Jiang Jianming smiled helplessly, took out the miniature listener pinned behind his collar, and put it in Laurent’s hand.
The latter crushed it in his palm with a crystal bone, still kind on his face, “Come with me.”
The two got off the mecha, Jiang Jianming followed half a step behind Laurent, seemingly inadvertently observing the surrounding environment.
The style inside the Crystal Cult starship was highly unified with the outside, whether it was the deck, corridor, automatic door or the walls on both sides, they were basically iron gray, obviously monotonous and cold.
The guards along the way were very strict, and a retinal lock had to be passed every few steps, and no flaws could be seen.
The rest of the crew on this starship should all be fanatics of the Crystal Colt. They walk at a regular pace, bow their heads and say hello when they see Bishop Laurent, orderly like soldiers, but more devout than soldiers.
Except for showing an eager look when facing the bishop, the expressions of this group of people were mostly indifferent, and they did not talk privately; they wear uniform gray clothes, which were designed as combat uniforms, but each person’s chest was pinned with a small piece of crystal, Jiang Jianming temporarily regarded it as a religious instrument worn by the followers of the Crystal Cult.
Just walking and watching like this, Jiang Jianming determined in less than a minute: this group of Crystal Cult rebels is not a casually organized miscellaneous army, it is a truly trained armed force.
Laurent casually asked him at this time. “How is Her Excellency Audrey Lance?”
Jiang Jianming was not sure whether the other party knew about the third-generation tranquilizer, and it would not be concealed for too long.
But he was still cautious and did not let go, but showed a hidden pain appropriately.
Laurent really determined that Audrey was dead, nodded, and said in a comforting tone, “She has acute crystal chaos, isn’t it? This is also inevitable.”
“Remnant 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 to be for decades. But once war comes, remnant humans trying to resist the rules of the world will inevitably be crushed.”
“She didn’t die in last year’s internal strife, so she died in today’s Aslan battle; if she didn’t die today, she would die in some future turmoil.”
Laurent smiled, took Jiang Jianming through another gray mechanical door, “But at least, she was relieved before you, and went to that happy paradise. I am sincerely happy for her.”
Paradise, this word appeared again. Jiang Jianming raised his eyes and asked lightly. “What do you mean by paradise?”
After they entered the door, what came into view was a spacious bridge. The huge curved porthole was now in a visible state, and the outside universe could be directly seen with the naked eye.
On the left and right were large computers in operation, and further forward was an escalator. If the mechanical door above was opened again, it should be the central command room.
Laurent stopped here and didn’t continue walking, but turned around and stood still, with his hands behind him, his expression seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
“Your Excellency Jiang, I guess, no one has told you some…secrets about this world before.”
“Do you know that crystal particles are conscious?”
Jiang Jianming’s first reaction was to doubt his ears, and he frowned and said, “What?”
But he quickly recovered, and his mind seemed to be pierced by a white arrow!
No, crystal particles…
There was a certain induction between crystal particles, which was indeed a consensus accepted by the scientific community.
The reason why the crystal race could control the distant crystal particles to condense into real crystals, and the reason why the chaotic state of crystal particles was contagious…These were all because of the quantum induction between crystal particles. Diana also said similar words when explaining the technology of mental consciousness projection.
But, consciousness?
“What did you think of?” Laurent nodded, “Then you might also accept that crystal particles are alive?”
