Tang Dingyuan scoffed: "if you want to add to the crime, why bother? You want to pour dirty water on my head. Even if the accusation is good, why ask me!"


    Cui Lingfeng looked at him faintly: "it will soon be known whether you want to add to the crime. I want to leave you some dignity, and let Dingyuan elder brother come to an end for this matter. But if you have to be stubborn... Your daughter has been arrested, so does she."


    Tang Dingyuan''s pupils suddenly contracted, and every muscle around him was tense. He was like a warship with full firepower. He roared: "Cui Lingfeng, it''s OK for you to frame me, but if you dare to touch half of my daughter''s hair, I won''t let you go as a ghost!"


    Cui Lingfeng sneered: "brother Dingyuan, you really love your daughter so much. At the beginning, you shouldn''t use your daughter''s identity and jingnao as a cover. You''re to blame. Why should you put on an angry posture?"


    "I didn''t!"


    His daughter''s safety finally made Tang Dingyuan completely out of control. His anxiety, despair and anger over the past few days were all vented. He seemed to be confined in this corner of the cell. He could only struggle to get up on one knee and yell at his opponent, "Cui Lingfeng, I''m the captain of the firefly, my daughter is a teacher of Xinghai University, even if you''re the speaker, There''s no right to arrest and interrogate us in secret! I''m not a traitor. I''m not an immortal. It''s all your framing. The most shameless framing! "


    "You didn''t?"


    Cui Lingfeng sneered twice and suddenly glared, his voice raised eight degrees, "you have! You''ve been defecting for a long time! You have already lost confidence in our cause and firefly! "


    "You are a downright capitulationist, a downright defeatist! You have long lost all your loyalty to Xinghai Republic! You don''t believe we can make a comeback with firefly, and you don''t believe that the flag of Xinghai Republic can float in the middle of Xinghai again! "


    "If you have any confidence in Xinghai Republic, how can you wait to join Xingyao Federation? You can surrender to the Xingyao Federation, of course, you can also surrender to the real empire. Anyway, you have to sell your motherland and compatriots for a good price. Of course, you have to find the richest buyer! "


    "Tang Dingyuan, Captain Tang! Do you dare to deny this, or do you dare to deny that you have completely lost confidence in Xinghai Republic? "


    These words, like arrows, pierced Tang Dingyuan''s chest, and made him pale. Even his hair and beard seemed to soften in an instant.


    Tang Dingyuan took a deep breath, with a dignified look and a hoarse voice, and said, "I don''t deny that I really lost confidence in Xinghai Republic, but it''s not the same as treason!"


    "Do you finally admit it?"


    Cui Lingfeng narrowed his eyes and said, "do you admit that you are a traitor who is greedy for life and afraid of death?"


    "I''m not a traitor!"


    Tang Dingyuan drags the invisible shackles, such as the roar of the lion trapped in the trap, "Cui Lingfeng, you councillors who sit in the parliament all day telling their own opinions, of course, you can use the spiritual victory method to deceive yourself without considering the situation! But for those of us who command the Starship on the bridge, we have to face tens of thousands of practical problems every day and watch the firefly decline day by day, but we can do nothing about it. It is useless to rely on spirit, faith and patriotism alone! No matter how firmly we believe in the Republic of Xinghai, we can''t solve the actual problems of the Starship. We can''t make half a steamed bread or half a screw. We can''t stop it. We''re going to annihilate step by step! "


    "Face the reality!"


    "The Republic of Xinghai has long been extinct. It was already extinct a thousand years ago. Now the firefly, which is drifting with the tide in Xinghai, is just its corpse!"


    "This corpse alone can''t be revived. It will rot slowly until it turns into a handful of dust in the cold universe!"


    "We can''t go back to the past. The Republic of Xinghai is a thousand years old history. If we really want to kill back to the center of Xinghai and avenge the destruction of the Republic of Xinghai in the past, we have to join the Xingyao Federation and unite the two forces of the cultists'' civilization. That''s the future, which belongs to all the cultists!"


    "Shut up


    I don''t know whether Cui Lingfeng is acting, or showing his true feelings, or both. His face suddenly becomes extremely terrible. It''s like something he has been guarding for a lifetime in his heart, which has been smashed to pieces. "You boneless capitulators, traitors, listen up, the Xinghai Republic is not doomed, as long as we are here, It will never die! One day, we will go back to the center of the sea of stars, and let the flag of the Republic fly again in every corner and every corner of the star


    His blood runs through his eyes, and his face is full of anger. However, Tang Dingyuan is slightly surprised. He looks at him carefully. Tang Dingyuan shows a sarcastic smile: "the so-called" we "refers to you and that group of members who do not share grain and are not diligent? What are you going to use to fight back to the center of Xinghai, your spirit and patriotism? "


    Cui Lingfeng took a deep breath and looked at Tang Dingyuan with disdain: "you are a pure technocrat, a weapon only person, and a big gun and ship supremacy person. Naturally, you will not understand the importance of spirit. Anyway, you will take refuge in whoever is strong and powerful, that''s all."


    "But I tell you, don''t underestimate the power of spirit. People should have a little spirit! A thousand years ago, if our ancestors didn''t rely on the spirit that you don''t look up to, and on our love and loyalty to the Republic of Xinghai, how could they break out of the encirclement again and again, escape the Empire''s clutches, and even hold on to today without losing 80% of the population and combat power? "


    "As a warship commander, you should know better than I do. Usually, a unit will collapse if it loses at most 20% of its combat power!"


    "But we didn''t, we didn''t collapse, on the contrary, we still go all the way to today. Under the condition that the whole Xinghai sea is engulfed by the Empire and the holy alliance, we, the Xinghai Republic, are still fighting!"


    Tang Dingyuan said coldly: "I refuse to call our present situation" battle ". Think about the last time we met the imperial claw fleet, we were more embarrassed than the lost dogs hiding in Tibet! If you want to really "fight", you have to join the Xingyao Federation and fully integrate each other''s forces. Only in this way can you have a little chance to fight back to the center of Xinghai! "


    "Do you ask me if I have lost faith in the Republic of Xinghai? Yes! I never hide my thoughts. I think the Republic of Xinghai is hopeless and long dead! "


    "But you ask me if I''m a traitor? no I also love Xinghai Republic, and I am also willing to inherit the spirit of Xinghai Republic. I also hope Xinghai Republic can get a new life - with a new name, a new face, a new attitude! "


    "The Republic of Xinghai is the supreme country of human civilization, which inherits the spirit of the Xinghai empire. If the Xinghai empire is called the" first Xiuzhen civilization "that dominates the Xinghai, then the Republic of Xinghai is the" second Xiuzhen civilization ". Today, a thousand years later, the Xingyao Federation is fully qualified to become the" third Xiuzhen civilization. ", Inherit the spirit from Xinghai Empire to the Republic, take over the mission that all practitioners have not completed in the past ten thousand years, and let the powerful cultivation civilization sweep the whole universe again


    "That''s all I think. I''m not going to surrender to the Xingyao Federation, but to inject the spirit of Xinghai Republic, which I love and swear to protect, into the Xingyao Federation, and create a stronger, brighter, and infinite future cultivation country on top of the corpse of Xinghai Republic!"


    At the beginning, Tang Dingyuan''s voice was as cold as hail. At the end, it was roaring into thunder with fire.


    Cui Lingfeng didn''t seem to expect that he would say such a thing. For a moment, his face was full of consternation and doubt.


    "Look at you now. If it wasn''t for your superb acting skills, I really believe you''re not playing tricks in the dark."


    Tang Dingyuan sat back, lost in deep thinking, and murmured, "that''s too bad. The two of us, the speaker of the exiled government and the captain of the firefly, were framed at the same time..."


    Cui Lingfeng frowned: "what do you say?"


    Tang Dingyuan glanced at him and said with a sneer, "speaker Cui, I believe in your love and loyalty to the Republic of Xinghai for the time being. However, your so-called" we "are not necessarily. Not every member of Parliament is ready to go into exile for another thousand years with your fanatical loyalty."


    "For the vast majority of members, what they care about is just a tiny bit of power and status on hand, which can help them get a relatively spacious cabin and some slightly delicious synthetic food."


    "As long as there is a chance, these councillors will never mind selling their loyalty and" spirit ". As you said, they can be sold to both the Federation and the Empire!"


    Cui Lingfeng narrowed his eyes and said, "what do you mean, make it clear?"


    "Do you really think that all the councillors, like you, are willing to sail all the way to the end of the universe under the name of" Xinghai Republic "


    Tang Dingyuan said calmly, "yes, the attitude they showed in the parliament is indeed so. Each of them is noble, bold and loyal to the extreme. But that''s just because the five words" Xinghai Republic "have not yet sold at a good price in their mind. Do you want to know how many councillors came to me in private, In fact, they are not against joining the Xingyao Federation, but because of your obscenity and persecution, they dare not say it face to face? "


    Cui Lingfeng said nothing and stared at Tang Dingyuan.


    Tang Dingyuan was calm and did not give in.


    "Brother Dingyuan, let''s talk about it today."


    Cui Lingfeng said slowly, "I have something else to do. Let''s go first."


    "You should hurry."


    Tang Dingyuan laughed, with a dim smile. "If you weren''t acting just now, you really found evidence from my daughter Jing''s brain, and Ding Zhengyang - he''s acting captain now, and he really accused me, then we, firefly, government in exile, Xingyao Federation, will be in great trouble."