"Why?"


    Cheng xuansu rubbed the handle of the gun with his fingers for a long time, and then began to smile. He looked at Cui Lingfeng''s face seriously and said, "I should ask you this question. Madam speaker, what kind of fanatical spirit can support your morbid belief and make you believe that the" Xinghai Republic "still exists, I firmly believe that the firefly, which is made up of hundreds of scrap metal, can sail for another thousand years, or even one day return to the center of the sea of stars to defeat the extremely powerful human Empire? "


    "Tang Dingyuan is right. The Republic of Xinghai has long been dead. Wu Yingqi rushed into the Supreme Council 1000 years ago and announced that he was the speaker of the parliament! Firefly is just its corpse. We are just tiny insects living in this decaying corpse! "


    "Return to the center of Xinghai and revive the Republic of Xinghai? It''s impossible. Don''t dream


    Cui Lingfeng stares at Cheng xuansu. His eyes are like two sharp hooks. He wants to open her skull and see clearly. His voice is very low, but full of the power of despair: "xuansu, even you think so? Even if it''s a dream, it''s not just my dream, but the dream of thousands of people, including your father! Your father, as well as countless heroes like your father, devoted their whole life and their whole life to this dream! It''s just to leave a little hope for the great country a thousand years ago! How can you, how can you think that? "


    Cheng xuansu''s face was indifferent, but the light of crystal eyes was more and more deep, red and purple, purple and black. He said coldly, "again, that man is not my father. The hope of the so-called" Xinghai Republic "is just your old, self deceptive dream. What does it have to do with me?"


    "Perhaps for you, the" Xinghai Republic "really represents a great history, a lot of things and all of you! Many of you were born in the middle of Xinghai, grew up in the heyday of Xinghai Republic, witnessed and enjoyed its power and prosperity with your own eyes - just like my sperm provider, and then you were put into hibernation warehouse like zombies. You hibernate all the way to today, and naturally you will never forget that country that has long been annihilated. "


    "But what about me?"


    "I was born on this cold, dark, narrow and damp wreck. From the beginning of my memory, I was faced with endless disasters. Today is the leakage of this cabin, tomorrow is the explosion of that pipe, and the day after tomorrow is the famine caused by the failure of the artificial greenhouse!"


    "Behind our buttocks are thousands of imperial pursuers, in front of us is the dark sea of stars that no human has ever stepped on, and our broken ship is rusting and rotting day by day, and there is no hope at all!"


    "That''s all. You have to use" the glory of the Republic of Xinghai in the past "to deceive others. You also have to tell jokes about" go back to the center of Xinghai! "


    "Just because I am the daughter of that man, because his blood is flowing in my body, and because of all your nonsense, I have" voluntarily "accepted the most rigorous cultivation since I was five years old. Stimulated by lies, I constantly hit the limit and tried to turn myself into the same" hero "as that man until the end, But he turned himself into... Now he looks like a man without a ghost and a man without a ghost! "


    "Then, when you find that what you''ve been cheated and that what you''ve been fighting for half your life is just a complete joke that can never be realized, isn''t it a normal reaction to choose" betrayal "


    "You asked me why I chose the human Empire? Hehe, it''s very simple. I''m fed up with the days on the firefly! I''ve had enough of the dreary air, the narrow cabin, the delicious food, the fear day and night, the dark voyage without hope like a fly


    "I''ve devoted the first half of my life to the decaying corpse of Xinghai Republic, and the second half of my life. I want to change my way of life and live like a real person!"


    Cui Lingfeng now looks like a zombie who has been dead for a long time. He hissed: "even so, even if you really... Don''t want to stay on the firefly, you can choose Xingyao Federation!"


    Cheng xuansu sniffed: "what''s the difference between Xingyao Federation and Xinghai Republic? You are doomed to be unable to resist the expedition of the real human empire. I have fled once and don''t want to be a lost dog for the second time. I don''t want to die! Empire, can give me everything I want, everything


    Cui Lingfeng said tragically: "so you betrayed your compatriots and degenerated into an immortal?"


    Cheng xuansu looked at him sarcastically: "what''s the difference between those who cultivate the truth and those who cultivate the immortals? Naturally, everyone will say, "the practitioners are the swords of human civilization" and "the practitioners are born to protect ordinary people." but is that really the case? "


    "If you practitioners of Xinghai Republic are really so great and are supported by the common people, what chance will Wu Yingqi usurp the power of the Supreme Council and become the" black star emperor "


    "On the little firefly, isn''t it the higher the accomplishments, the better the treatment and the greater the power?"


    "Ordinary people and bottom sailors live in small dark and humid cabins. Many people don''t even have their own independent sleeping barn, so they have to share a place with their families and sleep in turn."


    "The high-ranking practitioners, whether they are members or bridge commanders like Tang Dingyuan, can enjoy dozens of times better treatment than ordinary people - at least you don''t have to squeeze a sleeping barn in turn, right?"


    "There are nearly 100 Yuanying friars on the firefly, but I have never seen a Yuanying friar live in a cabin smaller than that of a sailor on the ground floor. This is just a different legal treatment. As for the illegal activities of your councillors, the use of power to restrain materials, the black market transactions, and so on, I don''t care to say - in that case, What''s the difference between those who cultivate the truth and those who cultivate the immortals? What''s the essential difference between the Xinghai Republic and the human Empire? "


    Cui Lingfeng''s face turned red and white: "this, this is an extraordinary period. We have to do it as a last resort!"


    "Yes, extraordinary times."


    Cheng xuansu laughed. "I still remember the last" extraordinary period ". Because of the extreme shortage of food, the then parliament even made a decision that all people were not allowed to get pregnant and give birth naturally. Sperm and eggs had to be frozen. According to the material circulation and population changes on board, the number of newborns was precisely controlled. I was under this policy, It''s nurtured by "precise control" -- is this something that practitioners can do? "


    Cui Lingfeng''s eyes twitched, as if his heart was suffering from severe devastation. He gasped: "that''s a difficult decision, but we have no choice. The resources and space on the ship are just like this. If we let the population explosion go, there will be an uncontrollable famine in the end, and we will fall into a horrible hell of cannibalism!"


    "Facts have proved that this policy is effective. After a difficult 100 years, we have finally overcome the problem of food shortage and restored our society to normal and vitality again."


    Cheng xuansu said: "Mr speaker, do you think I was against the policy at that time? No, on the contrary, I very much agree with this policy. At that time, if we want to continue our civilization, this is the only option we have no choice! "


    "Aware of this, I suddenly enlightened, figured it out!"


    "Most of the time, right and wrong are meaningless, and it''s meaningless to cultivate truth or immortality, because we have no choice."


    "The resources and space of firefly are limited, but the population growth can reach infinity at any time. For the continuation of civilization, we have made a lot of choices... We have no choice."


    "In a broad sense, isn''t the entire human civilization at the helm of the real human Empire just a bigger firefly in the vast dark universe? Perhaps, in order for the whole human civilization to continue, the Empire has to make a lot of choices that have no choice! "


    Cui Lingfeng was really stunned, thinking for a moment, deeply shuddered: "you, where on earth did you learn so much... Deviant thoughts!"


    Cheng xuansu said with a smile: "don''t underestimate the wild country on the coast of Xinghai. Aren''t all the legendary elites living in such a place‘ President Lu Qingchen of the emperor''s Council is really a scholar who has a deep study of Xiuxian Avenue. Many of his thoughts are enlightening and enlightening


    "Well, if you have nothing to ask, let''s call it a day."


    "I''m sorry, speaker... No, uncle Cui, although you have cheated me with those lies for decades, I''d better call you uncle Cui at last! No one wants things to be like this. Really, it''s not personal grudges, it''s not even a big fight. I just want to live the kind of real human life that I should have been living for a long time. "


    Cheng xuansu raised his pistol and pointed it at Cui Lingfeng''s eyebrows. "I remember that at that time, every time I was exhausted and couldn''t get up again, you would encourage me to say that as long as I persisted in the end, I would surely create a miracle!"


    "But I''m sorry, I don''t believe in miracles for a long time."


    Cui Lingfeng''s face was as gray as death, and he was so sad that he couldn''t spit out a word.


    "That..."


    Li Yao scratched his hair and raised his hand to speak.


    "Well?"


    Cheng xuansu raised his eyebrows, and the red light from crystal eye locked Li Yao. "Professor Rhode, I''m sorry to involve you in this matter. It''s just your bad luck. Do you have any last words?"


    "There is no last word, but I really want to say something."


    Li Yao looked at Cui Lingfeng, then at Cheng xuansu, blinked and said, "first, I think the universe is so big, and there are miracles occasionally."


    "Second, between the two of us, there is one person who has bad luck today, but it should be... Not me."