Chapter 103.1 – Liszt and 0293
Although “Blazing Sun” was a war robot, with its lifting ability, it was not difficult to clean up the entrance to the underground.
It stopped quietly in place, waiting for Di Wen’s instructions.
The mole people stared wide-eyed and speechless.
After a long time, one person screamed: “Di Wen, you’re lying to it, right?! How can you, how can you—!”
Another person shouted: “Yes, how can it be! Obviously, it was you who took us into the capital, and the king…”
“Enough!” Di Wen shouted in a low voice, “That’s enough! Don’t mention this to me again, let’s—” She paused deeply and took a deep breath, “Let’s talk when we go underground.”
She seemed to be several years older all at once.
The two people who stayed behind in the aircraft were still unsure of the situation. Lu Tinghan used the terminal to tell them about the “Blazing Sun” so that they didn’t have to panic.
All the way forward, everyone was speechless, and there was only the sound of torrential rain between the heavens and the earth.
Shi Yuan asked Lu Tinghan in a low voice: “The blazing sun is so powerful, can it guard the city?”
Lu Tinghan: “The Empire has always had a blazing sun, but the city has still fallen.”
“Oh.” Shi Yuan thought for a while, “But if General Liszt could use the blazing sun, wouldn’t it be much safer?”
For some reason, Lu Tinghan was silent for a while and replied, “Shi Yuan, there is a question.”
“What?” Shi Yuan’s tail bent out a question mark.
“If the blazing sun has always been able to work, why did it not appear until today?” Lu Tinghan said, “It’s underground and it’s never been out before.”
Shi Yuan: ?
His tail bent even more: “Yeah, why?”
Lu Tinghan stretched out his hand and straightened his tail, and said, “We will know the answer soon.”
Ten minutes later, they found the entrance near the collapsed First City subway station.
The entrance was also tightly blocked by the ruins. “Blazing Sun” stretched out its robotic arm to pluck away the debris, but it was not a professional and moved slowly and carefully.
It took some time to clean up, and they found a roadside store that hadn’t collapsed, and took shelter from the storm.
This store sold robots, including sweeping robots, cooking robots, etc., with strange shapes, including human-shaped ones and round-headed ones. They were in disrepair and had no energy, so they stood in place one by one.
The door of the store was opened and the mole people came in, shaking their fur to shake off the rain.
Lu Tinghan asked Shi Yuan to bring an umbrella, saying that he didn’t want to see a cold abyss. When they were about to climb up the ruins, they couldn’t hold the umbrella, and Shi Yuan was also drenched by the rain.
Only when they entered the store did they feel cold in their hands and feet. Shi Yuan took a fancy to a sweeping robot with a round head and half a person tall, he sat up and rolled up his drenched trousers.
Di Wen stayed in the corner.
Several mole people surrounded her and asked her whether she was warm or cold with concern, she just shook her head.
The mole people were afraid of light. Several people in the Alliance only turned on one flashlight and shone into the corner, and the dust danced in the bright yellow beam. Di Wen’s vague and dim shadow fell on the wall, stacked with the broken robots of the old days.
After an unknown period of time, she sighed: “…I never thought it would come to this day.”
The heavy rain fell stickily through the murky glass of the shop.
She told the story of the past.
When the abyss first appeared, it caused a large area of panic in the Empire. Soon, the martial culture and a strong army calmed people down a little.
No matter when, members of the royal family were the best protected. The residence of the princes was indestructible and guarded by the army. If there was a slight disturbance, they would leave immediately by aircraft or underground train. This was especially true for the king and princess. Regardless of the blood flowing outside, Elton was the safest place.
The king led the war, and the princess gave a speech. Even though there was a storm, the people of the Empire regained their confidence.
As a member of the royal family, Alicia had received a variety of education since she was a child, from equestrian, shooting, military to speech and etiquette. She inherited her father’s intelligence and arrogance, learning quickly, but impatiently, too tired and too bored easily, too distracted to learn anything at all.
The war was tense day by day, and even if the king doted on the princess, he couldn’t keep her in the ivory tower for the rest of her life.
For the first time in his life, he “asked” Alicia to study the military.
Alicia didn’t learn well.
What infantry, what guns, what armor and tanks, what pincer tactics three-dimensional defense, what war robots, she did not care. However, her father, who always smiled at her, put on a straight face and forced her to learn.
The little princess was very aggrieved.
She stayed in the palace again, was forced to learn the military for a day, and finally found the king in tears.
“I don’t want to learn anymore,” she sniffled, pouting, “I want to go to the aquarium and see the fish, or, or to Miss Gracie’s, she says she’s made a new necklace—”
“No.” The king pressed his wide hand on her shoulder, and looked at her with ice-blue eyes, distressed, helpless, and firm.
He said: “Alicia, one day you will become the queen of this country. You have to lead them to victory.”
“Why?” Alicia sniffled, “I don’t want to be a queen. As long as you, as long as you stay as the king, wouldn’t it be fine?”
The king smiled: “I will grow old, and you will grow up. This is inevitable.” He touched Alicia’s long golden hair, “But our kingdom will not die, it will be under your leadership for thousands of generations.”
“No, I don’t want to be a queen—” The little princess was still unhappy, tears were about to flow out, “Those things are too annoying, I don’t even want to touch them.” She grabbed the king’s cloak and said in a squeamish voice, “Then you just don’t get old. You haven’t changed in all these years! You haven’t aged at all!”
The king was happy to hear this, laughed loudly, and took Alicia to the balcony.
The weather in the Empire was ever-changing, there were thunderstorms in the morning, and it had cleared up in the evening. It was sunset, the sky was burning red, and the clouds were spreading magnificently over the fields.
Alicia watched intently.
Deep down, she understood that her father was right, and this huge kingdom would one day be hers.
But she was also reluctant in every way. Her father was very tall, with broad shoulders and strong arms, just like the lion on the imperial flag. As long as he was still there, then all kinds of responsibilities and duties would not fall on her head.
Who wanted to be a queen?
Being a princess was better.
The sea of clouds was vast.
She said again: “I’ll take a break tomorrow, okay—”
King: “Alicia, we agreed…”
“Just one day!” The princess begged, “Just one day, let me go and see Mr. Barry’s garden. He just planted new flowers!”
Her words were so earnest that the king’s refusal was on the verge of his lips, and then he swallowed them back when he saw her watery blue eyes.
He let out a long sigh: “All right, just one day!”
The princess rejoiced.
As it turned out, the king could never be cruel to Alicia.
If there was an exception this time, there would be another time. The little princess had learned to study, and she prided herself on being smart. She could cope with the highly respected teacher by learning casually. She studied carelessly and absent-mindedly.
The days went on like this.
In the blink of an eye, it was the year when Alicia turned 20 years old.
The city fell one after another, and the king lost patience, gave up inhibitors, and devoted all his energy to Professor Christina’s fusion agent research.
After the fusion agent came out, the princess spoke publicly, supporting people infected by monsters to use the fusion agent and become “stronger warriors of the Empire.”
Her speech won praise from the crowd for her quick wit and generosity. She lifted her skirt and curtsied, smiling and waving to the people amidst the cheers, unaware that she had sent them to hell step by step.
The soldiers injected fusion agents and possessed monster-like abilities.
The city was taken back, the mood of the kingdom was high, and a sea of people in Sunrise Square shouted ‘Long live the king, God bless the Empire!’.
They made it through the peak period safely.
