The system was silent for a while, and said: [I did not expect this situation. 】
Ji Ling: [He shouldn’t be here now at all. Now that the plot has changed so much, why didn’t you expect it? 】
The system is at a loss: [Well, I’ll go and find out what’s going on, you need to stabilize him first. 】
Ji Ling: 【……】
Ji Ling knew that the system was unreliable, so he could only adapt to the situation now. He pretended to withdraw his hand from Carlos’s hand, quietly put it behind his back, showing a disturbed expression, and said anxiously: “Carlos Uncle, this gift is too expensive for me to accept.”
Ji Ting also recovered from the shock just now, and said in a deep voice: “I appreciate your kindness on behalf of the dog, but please take back the gift.”
Carlos’s deep brown pupils had a slight smile, and his tone was soothing but with unquestionable persistence, and he said indifferently: “Today is Xiaoling’s coming-of-age ceremony, and I can be regarded as his elder. What is a planet?”
This is just a planet? It’s not those garbage stars who don’t even have names.
Ji Ting frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, he slowly said: “There are some juniors here, why don’t we go in and talk?”
Ji Ting was not sure about Carlos’ intention to come, and he didn’t understand why he suddenly showed his favor to Ji Ling in a big way. Could it be that he wanted to bribe him? Carlos insisted like this, and it was not good for him to continue to refuse in public, lest people would see a joke, and it would be bad if it caused unnecessary rumors, so he deliberately invited Carlos in to talk alone.
Carlos smiled and nodded. After taking a deep look at Ji Ling, he turned around and went in with Ji Ting.
When Ji Ling saw him leave, he realized that his vest was covered with a thin layer of sweat. Carlos’ appearance just now caught him by surprise.
Speaking of the main characters in the book, Carlos is the one he is most wary of. Don’t look at this man’s refined and polite behavior. He seems to be a flawless nobleman, but he is the most ruthless of all. Spicy, typical cold-blooded and black-bellied.
As the emperor of the empire, the male lead, Jing Sui, has an arrogant and indifferent personality, but at most he just ignores and disdains him.
Although the protagonist Shou Ning Yu has been made difficult and humiliated by him several times, he is a noble and self-reliant white lotus character, a frank and honest gentleman. Ji Ling is not worried at all that he will retaliate against him, and even feels sorry for bullying him.
The second villain, Marshal Brandon, is Jing Sui’s friend and like-minded companion.
Strictly speaking, Brandon cannot be said to be a villain. He just had some opposition to Jing Sui in the emotional drama, because he has a crush on Ning Yu, and he is a proper and affectionate male lead. He didn’t fall out with Jing Sui.
The villain No. 3 speaker, Wen Yan, is just an ordinary member of parliament at the moment, and will be Ning Yu’s friend later in the book. This person has a deep mind and is both good and evil, which makes people a little unpredictable. Although he later betrayed himself for Ning Yu, that incident fell within his expectations.
Only the villain number one, Grand Duke Carlos, is a smiling old fox on the surface. In fact, he does whatever it takes to achieve his goals. In his eyes, everyone is just a pawn. If he gets along with him, he will die without knowing how. In the last life, I didn’t provoke him at all, but he used it once inexplicably, and almost lost my life.
I don’t know what kind of wind came here to give such a heavy gift this time, but it didn’t happen last time.
Ji Ling was worried about what went wrong, which caused the plot to deviate. At this time, the long-lost system finally arrived late.
Ji Ling said quietly: [If you come back later, you don’t have to come back. 】
System: [Why? 】
Ji Ling: [Because I was probably killed back to the resurrection point at that time:)]
System: 【……】
Ji Ling: [So, have you found out what went wrong? 】
The system is rare and a little guilty: [Sorry, because the world crashed once and the database failed, it is temporarily impossible to determine the cause of Carlos’ abnormality. 】
He thought for a while, and added: [It is possible that after the world collapsed, there were some unexpected changes that caused a butterfly effect. But it doesn’t matter, your mission remains the same, as long as you can complete the mission, you can go back. 】
Really, why do I think this answer is perfunctory? Who knows how much the plot has changed? Can I still complete the task?
But even the system doesn’t know the reason, and Ji Ling can’t help it. He can only hope that the plot will not change much. Fortunately, he is still familiar with Carlos, and he is not completely defenseless.
Carlos and Jing Sui have different political views, and he has always been ambitious to replace Jing Sui. Everything he does has a purpose. It is impossible for him to come to his coming-of-age ceremony. Today, it is probably for the sake of His father Ji Ting came.
The Ji family is a veteran aristocrat with a strong foundation, and has a lot of voice among the imperial aristocracy, and belongs to the representative of the neutral faction. It is understandable that Carlos wants to win over the Ji family. In short, this kind of complicated power struggle should be left to his father Ji Ting to deal with it.
It’s better to focus on completing the task yourself.
As long as Jing Sui can have **** with Ning Yu properly, he can go home by himself!
Ji Ling stayed in the banquet hall for a while, a little tired of coping, so he found an excuse to go out to get some air.
Because he has done a mission once, Ji Ling is as familiar with this place as he is with his own home. The garden behind the banquet hall has a beautiful view. Ji Ling slipped out and climbed a tree, lying comfortably on the trunk, looking up Looking at the shining stars surrounding Emperor Star in the night sky, the nine stars exude colorful and beautiful luster, like colorful gems hanging in the sky.
These are the nine artificial satellites of Emperor Star, each of which is the size of a small planet. Although it looks so beautiful and harmless from here, it is actually a weapon of war that can destroy the world. It is strong enough to resist any attack. All enemies turn to dust. It is an important deterrent force to protect the safety of the capital Emperor Star and maintain the rule of the empire.
Ji Ling stared at the sky in a daze. The conflict between Carlos and Jing Sui has been going on for a long time, and the details have to start with the setting of this book.
The worldview setting of this book is very large. It is said that after the sixth scientific and technological revolution, human beings on earth officially set foot in the space field and entered a stage of comprehensive evolution. After thousands of years of development and expansion, they have now completely become the overlord of the universe. The intelligent beings headed by human beings have created a huge national regime and commanded countless star fields, which is today’s empire.
In the face of all kinds of intelligent life and powerful species in the universe, the reason why human beings can stand firm and have their current status is inseparable from a great invention.
That is – gene evolution agent.
Facing the vast universe, human beings are not reconciled to being so small. Although they can rely on external forces, their own fragility still makes it difficult for them to survive in the universe and cannot cope with various harsh living environments. Look vulnerable.
So human beings have never given up on developing their own potential.
After countless experiments and sacrifices, humans finally discovered a special substance in the universe thousands of years ago. The gene evolution agent finally synthesized by using this substance can be generally applied to more than 99.99% of human beings. opened the door to human evolution.
Through continuous evolution, reproduction, and fusion from generation to generation, human beings today are no longer what they used to be.
Although the appearance does not look much different from before, its strong body and super mental power are completely different from before… Compared with when it was on earth, it is almost a new species.
But has a high degree of civilization and evolution eliminated the contradictions and inequalities among human beings? No.
On the contrary, this evolution has made the class gap and contradiction between human beings bigger and bigger.
The original first-generation gene evolution agent is difficult to produce and expensive. Although it is generally applicable to all human beings, its rare output can only supply a very small number of people. These human beings have gained stronger strength and stronger strength through evolution. What they bring is a higher status, and the children born from their intermarriage are naturally stronger than ordinary humans… Gradually, a higher evolutionary class was born, which is also the embryonic form of the imperial aristocracy.
The first-generation evolutionists gradually realized the huge benefits, began to control the production and use of genetic evolution agents, and firmly controlled the top science and technology, gradually controlling the fate of mankind.
The strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.
Through thousands of years of development, the evolutionary class has gradually piled up a brand-new higher race with a steady stream of cosmic resources, which is completely different from ordinary humans, that is, today’s “imperial nobles”.
Now there is no existence in the universe that can threaten the empire. In order to maintain their absolute dominance, the nobles have completely monopolized the development and use of genetic evolution agents. Even for the lowest level of evolution agents, ordinary civilians have to pay sky-high prices It can only be purchased for a fee, and as for high-level evolution agents, it is completely forbidden to sell them to civilians.
The nobles continued to evolve themselves, and only intermarried among the same class. Although the more powerful evolved humans had more difficulty in giving birth to offspring, they were unwilling to intermarry with commoners, thinking that this would pollute the genes of their offspring.
The discrimination and inequality that were once hidden under the hypocrisy and fairness have gradually revealed their ferocious and cruel side.
In Ji Ling’s view, the nobles living in Emperor Star today are almost equivalent to the immortals living in the fairy world. According to this development, after thousands or even ten thousand years, they should not be called imperial nobles , but the imperial protoss!
Ji Ling felt that he could write a thesis, which was called “On the Birth of the Cosmic Protoss”.
In the current empire, it is difficult for ordinary civilians to evolve. If they don’t get rich overnight, the only thing that can change their fate is God’s will.
Under the peace, there is an undercurrent. The monopoly of the gene evolution agents by the powerful and their privileges has gradually aroused public dissatisfaction. However, under the powerful suppression of the empire and the control of public opinion, the number of rebels was not large.
Ji Ling can also understand that for most people in the empire, they live a peaceful and comfortable life. Even if there is some inequality in the society, no one is willing to give up their lives to fight against the powerful empire. Throughout history, revolutions are all driven to a desperate situation to rise up and resist. For the people of the current empire, it is far from reaching this point. Even in the society where Ji Ling lives, wealth is also monopolized by a few people. hands, but the inequality is not so obvious.
However, as the emperor of the empire, Jing Sui saw not only the prosperous surface of the empire today, but also the huge hidden dangers in it. If the fire is not controlled, it will eventually become a prairie fire.
The imperial power has too much power, and the excessive power that is not checked and balanced will inevitably lead to corruption. They ignore human life and are superior. Even ordinary people are inferior races in their eyes, and they think it is natural to enslave the untouchables , take off the glamorous coat, inside is the dark and ugly truth, and any existence that dares to disobey them will be suppressed by force.
The inevitable result of wanton suppression is resistance.
Once this kind of fermentation continues, revolution will break out one day sooner or later, and Jing Sui doesn’t want to see this happen, and he doesn’t want to see the foundation of the country shaken… Even gods will fall one day, let alone just A bunch of corrupt nobles? How many advanced civilizations have fallen?
No one can last forever.
In order to change this situation, Jing Sui advocated reducing the price of genetic evolution agents, further improving the rights of common people, and gradually weakening the gap between nobles and common people, hoping to build a more united country by increasing the per capita strength of the entire country mighty empire. He believes that it is not feasible for a country to be strong only by relying on a few people, and ordinary civilians, who account for the vast majority, are a force that cannot be underestimated.
However, Jing Sui’s actions violated the interests of the majority of the rich and powerful. They were unwilling to give up their rights and let those untouchables have the opportunity to be equal to them, or even step on their heads.
The dignitaries who opposed Jing Sui followed the example of Grand Duke Carlos, and opposed Jing Sui in every aspect of their political views.
Carlos believes that there is no need to change the status quo. All of this is the result of the survival of the fittest in nature, and low-level humans are not worthy of being equal to them.
In their eyes, those ordinary people are like ants on the ground. Although they have given them a peaceful and good life and protected them from being invaded by foreigners, they are still clamoring for more without being satisfied. This is the irrepressible greed of human nature and should not be condoned.
Carlos advocates **** suppression of the rebels in order to maintain the absolute dominance of the empire, and there is no need to compromise with some greedy ants.
The two sides fought openly and secretly for a book.
Ji Ling thinks that this matter is not something that he, a dandy, can get involved in, not to mention that he doesn’t have such a deep sense of substitution for this world. He only cares about how to play his role well, complete the task and go home .
No matter how huge and real this world is, it is not his original world, and it is not the place where he wants to stay.
Thinking of this, he let out a rare sigh, put his hands behind his head and looked at the starry sky in a daze, suddenly his ears moved, and he heard someone calling his name in the distance, it seemed to be the original owner’s little friends.
I have been out for a long time, and it is almost time to go back.
Ji Ling sat up, supported his hands, and jumped down from the tree with agility.
As soon as he landed, he looked up and saw an elegant and handsome middle-aged man standing under the tree-shadow, watching him with a smile, he was so scared that he couldn’t stand still and almost fell to the ground! It just happened to crash into the man’s arms.
Carlos looked at the boy who was “throwing into his arms”, stretched out his hand to gently support his shoulder, and said with a low voice, “Be careful.”
Ji Ling thought to himself that you didn’t scare me! He told himself to calm down, don’t panic! Then he raised his eyes from Carlos’ arms, showing a naive and surprised look, and said, “Uncle Carlos, why are you here?”
Carlos stared at the boy’s blue eyes, and his eyes fell on his vivid face. There seemed to be some kind of complicated nostalgia in his eyes. After a while, he said, “I just finished talking with your father. I see you here…”
He paused in the middle of speaking, the corners of his lips slightly raised a joking arc, and he said in a loving voice: “I just want to see how long a certain little guy is going to stay in the tree.”
Ji Ling: “…” So you’ve been watching it for a long time?
Fortunately, he didn’t have the bad habit of talking to himself alone. Looking at Carlos’s gentle and doting expression, he felt an inexplicable sense of horror rising from the soles of his feet, and his body couldn’t help but stiffen slightly.
Carlos sensed Ji Ling’s uneasiness, and said apologetically, “Sorry, did I scare you?”
Ji Ling bit her lower lip and shook her head, how many mistakes she said in front of this old fox, it’s better to use the same to cope with all changes.
However, he saw that Carlos’ eyes suddenly darkened, as if he was deeply suppressing something, and the hand pressing his shoulder was also slightly exerted.
Ji Ling couldn’t understand Carlos’ eyes, but he was inexplicably uneasy, as if he was being targeted, he blinked anxiously, and said, “My friend is calling me…”
Carlos’ expression remained unchanged.
Just when Ji Ling was a little nervous, Carlos let go of his hand slowly, and took a step back gracefully. Come on, don’t keep them waiting.”
Ji Ling seemed to be pardoned, nodded and said, “Then I’ll go first, see you, Uncle Carlos.”
As he spoke, he turned and left quickly, not daring to look back along the way.
He always felt that if he turned around, he might meet that person’s eyes…
It didn’t take long for Ji Ling to see Ross’s slightly round face, and asked him where he went with a smile. Surrounded by familiar noises, Ji Ling finally got rid of the suffocating environment just now. , For the first time, I think this greasy-faced guy looks a little cute!
At least Ross is much easier to deal with than Carlos.
……………
Carlos glanced at Ji Ling’s back, turned and left the manor.
His housekeeper, Anderson, had already been waiting outside, bent down respectfully and opened the door of the suspension car for him. Anderson hesitated for a moment, but still couldn’t help his curiosity, and asked, “I have already prepared the congratulatory gifts in advance as instructed. Why did you come here yourself?”
No one knew about Duke Carlos’ behavior today, which surprised Anderson, and he didn’t understand his intentions… Besides, someone wanted to buy a blue starfish from Duke Carlos before, and Duke Carlos would never accept it. I don’t care about it, but today it was given to Ji Ling abruptly, which made Anderson even more puzzled.
Carlos looked back at him, and said lightly: “I have my own arrangements.”
Anderson’s heart trembled when he saw this gaze, and he quickly lowered his head and said, “I’m sorry, I’m busy.”
Your Excellency the Duke must have his reasons for doing this. Since he didn’t say that he shouldn’t ask, Anderson suppressed his curiosity and closed the car door respectfully for Carlos.
Carlos sat in the car, clasped his hands, and lightly tapped the tip of the silver cane with his index finger.
Close your eyes, and what appears in front of you is the panicked scene when the young man jumped from the tree and fell into his arms, like an elf falling into the mortal world… In those clear water blue eyes , reflecting his own face, as if he could see to the end at a glance.
He is still alive and will call him Uncle Carlos.
No one knows what kind of ripples the sound of “Uncle Carlos” caused in his heart at that moment.
The first thing he did after his rebirth was to come here, just to see him with his own eyes, to see if he is still here, living carefree and unrestrained, not the last scene he saw in his previous life ——Lying weakly in Jing Sui’s arms, with his blood-stained arms hanging down feebly, he gradually lost his last breath and became a cold and dead corpse.
Carlos slowly opened his eyes, the brown pupils were cold and dark.
In his previous life, he fought with Jing Sui all his life, but he fell short in the end because of carelessness. But at that moment, he realized that the thing he regretted the most was not his failure… but regret for involving an innocent young man in him and Jing Sui. He regretted letting Ning Yu escape because of his carelessness, and regretted that he didn’t recognize the boy and killed him with his own hands.
The young man stood in front of Jing Sui resolutely, and the scene where he fell slowly was like a sharp thorn, easily piercing his emotions that had abandoned all cowardice, kindness, tenderness and other inferior races. The—indestructible cold heart.
It was the first time he knew what it was like to lose.
This innocent and innocent young man who relied on him, this young man who knew that he had betrayed and abandoned him, but still chose to trust him and looked at him with those innocent eyes…
Is it too simple and stupid?
No, maybe it’s just because I believe and care.
However, he once turned a blind eye to this trust, even used this trust as a bargaining chip, and pushed him out at will in order to achieve his own goals, making him a victim of the struggle between himself and Jing Sui… He thought he would not He will regret it, because the stupid and weak should be abandoned and used, and he has always done this.
But on that cold night, the moment the boy appeared in front of him regardless of previous suspicions, he suddenly realized… did he really disdain the boy’s trust? no.
He just hadn’t seen anything beautiful enough to impress him before this.
After seeing it, you will know how precious it is.
But when he finally understood this, he lost him.
Killed him by mistake.
Carlos pursed his thin lips tightly, his whole body was chilling and cold, and his hands slowly tightened.
If it wasn’t for Jing Sui, you wouldn’t make mistakes again and again, and even lose your life for him in the end.
That man is more ruthless than you imagined, he won’t care about anyone, let alone love you, but you didn’t understand this until you died, even if your heart is trampled like that, you are willing to pay for him life.
That man is not worthy of your love at all!
But he’s back now.
What he wanted this time was not only the empire, but also the boy who would simply look at him and call him Uncle Carlos with a smile.
This time, he hopes that those flawless eyes will never be covered with dust, that the young man’s smile can unfold to him like this forever, and that he can trust him and rely on him again without any scruples.
The moment he saw Ji Ling again, he didn’t hesitate at all.
Rebirth is to give him a chance to make up for his regrets.
The expression in Carlos’ eyes slowly deepened.
You are so beautiful and flawless, you are countless times more dazzling than the unique blue starfish.
You will be my most beautiful treasure.