The Riddler Get Out of Terra

Chapter 214 Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

"Qilin has meritorious service and has been in the cabinet since then. If you have something to report, you will leave the court if there is nothing to do."

Emperor Yan still looked like he was sitting on the throne, his voice was lazy and casual, but no one below him dared to stand up and refute his judgment.

No matter how greedy a person is when faced with a life-and-death crisis, he will understand what humility is, and no matter how stupid a fool is, he will know how to escape from the falling butcher knife. In today's Yan Kingdom, Emperor Yan is the butcher knife that will never rust, and his orders are the greatest Violence that no one can object to.

——After the previous cabinet leader Yan Shangao hinted to Emperor Yan that he could slightly relax the supervision of the Northern Territory so as to drain out enough money and food to maintain the face of the top leaders of the Yan Kingdom, he was directly sent to the Northern Territory together with his younger brother Yan Shipan and never came back. How could the former cabinet leader Zhang Juchao refute Yanhuang's determination to fight against the northern border?

As for Jingzhe's policy of using conscription in the Northern Territory, and then using the policy to accelerate conscription in the Northern Territory to meet Emperor Yan's needs, his ministers have risen to prominence... Does anyone dare to make a stumbling block?

Even if you secretly curse a word or two at home, you have to carefully find a dark room to secretly vent, otherwise - will the Jin Yiwei and the Secret Service be blind?

However, there was no happiness on Qilin's face, only the heaviness that could not be concealed. She knew the Yanhuang's difficulties. During the days when her soul was being tortured and was in danger, she even received a gift from the Yanhuang himself - a gift containing... The "memory capsule" of the northern battle memory is a storage device created by Sui Xiang Nian Beast for Yan Huang. The remaining Sui Xiang and Yan Huang stored part of the memory of the northern territory in it, allowing Jingzhe to read it and let her Understand the urgency and urgency of confronting the North.

This is not an unjust war that wastes people and money, but a racial war for the survival of future generations and the survival of the Yan Kingdom!

That dark shadow is definitely not human, that vicious and crazy figure

The northern border is by no means native to Terra. They are abnormal [monsters] that should not exist on this land. If they are given a chance to spread their existence, what will happen to many creatures on the land of Terra? There is only one option, and that is to be devoured by evil spirits and become insignificant food and playthings in the opponent's evolution process.

Yes, the demons have begun to derive another mode of survival. They conduct an experiment in a vicious and cruel way that insults the entire human group of Terra: domesticating and enslaving humans.

What frightened Jingzhe the most was that in the messages sent by the heavenly masters from the north and after layers of anti-virus efforts, they described the success of the evil action in a horrified and tired tone.

Terran humans have been captured by them, and the mark of the existence of evil spirits has been deeply engraved in their cognition, becoming the basis for their continuous growth. Their every thought, every fear, and every cognition will be Help the North and the evil spirits to further evolve and continue to derive life forms that are even more unacceptable in this world.

The more you realize this, the more you will understand that all your efforts are useful and useless.

She did succeed in making the Yan Kingdom just and equitable. The people were happy and healthy. They had enough food and clothing to know honor and disgrace. Scale Claw, dare not interfere with people's pursuit of happiness.

But the implementation of her plan is pushing people to die. It is asking people living on this land to sacrifice their lives in a gentle tone. It is making young people bleed, old people shed tears, children cry, and lovers are separated. It is... ...It is creating a series of tragic and heartless tragedies.

However, if it were not for this inevitable tragedy, her ideal fairness and justice would never come. Emperor Yan would not let a double-edged sword cut around Yan Guo - because it would not only cut out carrion, but also Injury to normal tendons, muscles, blood vessels, and even bones.

Jingzhe originally thought that the realization of his ideal would only bring the sweetness of happiness, but he did not expect that it would not be accompanied by glory, but the anvil wielded by fate.

She has been trapped in a cycle of contradictions.

Therefore, when she accepted the order, when she remained calm and composed in the eyes of all kinds of people, when she stood tall and proud in the eyes of her father, her heart was only cold, without any thoughts from the past.

When exactly did I become like this?

She walked into the Rain Terrace step by step, greeting fewer and fewer old faces and more and more new faces. If there are no promotion opportunities for Rain Terrace's secret agents, they will always be transferred later in their careers, perhaps to the Secret Service. , maybe the Jin Yiwei, maybe the Judicial Yamen, or even going to the north. In any case, Jingzhe, as the highest official of Yutai, has to say goodbye to the old friends from the past, and then look at the new people's admiration and fear in their eyes, and say something that affects them. A lifetime of judgment.

In the past, she felt that Emperor Yan was familiar, and she even guessed who she had met before was similar to him when she was relaxed. Now she felt that she was familiar, because this self who was bored and inadvertently determined the future of countless people happened to be the same as the person who sat on the throne and It seems that the eternally young and always powerful Emperor Yan is so similar.

Maybe He thought the same way when he saw me?

With a bit of joking, a bit of helplessness, and a bit of loneliness in the sky, Jingzhe encouraged the young people with good political achievements, quietly hinted at the young people with shortcomings, and coldly rebuked the young subordinates who were not doing well. Finally, she Opening a new round of recruitment manuals, I was speechless when faced with the cold numbers and the bright red number of applicants.

She was trapped in a cycle that she couldn't escape from.

Finally, looking at the night, the blond Qilin looked at his face that was much more mature than when he entered the illusion, and sighed quietly.

Let's go to Tianshi Mansion tomorrow and see what the husband who bids him farewell when he graduated would say to himself now.

Chapter 215 Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

"What?! The lecturer went to participate in the Northern War?!"

Jingzhe gaped at the students who were so scared that she was trembling. Qingli's pretty face was numb from too much shock.

Qilin stared at the preparatory Celestial Master of the Tianshi Mansion who was shivering in front of him as he told the lecturer's whereabouts. As a high-ranking official of the imperial court, his intimidating eyes brought great pressure to the other party. The trembling eyes of the preparatory Celestial Master who came from an ordinary family. Shi Jingzhe said hesitantly:

"The lecturer said that he was ashamed to be a teacher. He actually watched the Yan people being tricked into dying for so many years. He only regretted that he was blind. He didn't realize that his former students could be so scheming and vicious. He cannot and cannot oppose His Majesty's decision, but..."

She repeated in a tone about to cry:

"But I will never join in the conspiracy. Since, since the Yan Kingdom wants its citizens to bleed, then, as the Tianshi Mansion Tianshi, he is also a member of the Yan Kingdom, and he can also bleed for the Yan Kingdom. After that, the lecturer will sign up. The North has joined the war!”

The blond-haired Feilin's legs were clearly trembling, but she repeated exactly what the lecturer told her before leaving. The girl had a look of fear on her face, but there was no sign of weakness in her actions.

"..."

Jingzhe looked at her silently, obviously not like her at all, obviously so weak that he didn't even dare to talk to her directly, but Qilin saw his former self through the face of this cowardly ordinary student.

She originally wanted to say something, such as there is no need for you to be so afraid of me, I am also a lecturer

Students, for example, I used to be similar to you, studying in the library day and night. Another example is that there is no need to be so cowardly. You graduated from Tianshi Mansion and are destined to go further than others, but you can grit your teeth in front of girls. Faced with the words full of disappointment left by the lecturer, Jingzhe seemed to have lost the strength to communicate further.

"I understand." She tried her best to hide the disappointment in her tone, and said calmly in the calmest tone: "I am actually also a student of the lecturer, but I was a few years earlier than you. When I graduated, I heard the lecturer say that in Yanguo, After staying in Vanity Fair for a long time, I will always forget my original intention and lose my vision. At that time, I told him that I would stick to myself and make Yan country fair and just, and the atmosphere would be renewed."

"Eh?" The girl's eyes widened in surprise, and the tears that were originally swirling in her eyes but unwilling to fall slowly fell down her cheeks. She suddenly felt guilty and hurriedly apologized:

"H-I'm sorry, senior! I've been practicing like this for the past few days because of the lecturer's instructions. I thought that his bad student would come, but I didn't expect that it was the senior who came back to visit the lecturer! Yes, I'm sorry! I said a lot of irrelevant things and turned the senior My good mood was completely ruined, I'm sorry..."

She spoke solemnly, with no trace of the persistence she had shown when she faced Jingzhe not long ago on her face. At this time, the girl looked like a fledgling student, who had not been severely beaten by the reality of blood and fire, and was still a reckless young man with wishful thinking. , but Jingzhe no longer has the energy to think about these things. Today, the high-ranking officials in the Yan Kingdom who are favored by Emperor Yan are neither sad nor happy, repeating the past stories in a sleep-like tone:

"Later, I worked at Si Suitai. At that time, I was still very young and full of energy. I did a lot of big things and won the favor of my boss. With some other small support, I was quickly recommended to Yutai. Work."

"The increase in rocket speed has brought me many enemies, but I don't care, because I felt from the beginning that my purpose and pursuit was not to be trapped in a cage called Rain Terrace and scheming, but should be Stand up and make the atmosphere of Dayan clean and honest, and the people of Yan country will live a better life."

"!"

The girl's eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on her thin face because of Jingzhe's description. She looked at the Kirin, which had replaced the many branches of the sharp horns with the thick long horns of the Minotaur, and the long mane and tail disguised as an ox's tail. , echoed longingly:

"Senior sister is so awesome! The lecturer has told me before that you have to fight with yourself, be independent of yourself, and don't care about one thing at the expense of the other. The senior sister deserves to be the teacher's student!"

Jingzhe felt like he had been cut in half alive, and his heart was bleeding and painful:

"No, I can't be considered as fulfilling the requirements of the lecturer. I can only say that... I can only say that it is driven by current events."

"Later, natural disasters occurred frequently. I came into the sight of His Majesty because of my merits in caring for the people, and was ordered to enter the palace. I was so frightened by His Majesty that I trembled in the palace and couldn't help myself. Now that I think about it, almost 20 years have passed."

She is obviously still a lady with great charm, but the words she speaks are like those of a waning old man. Jingzhe looks up at the characteristic patio built by the Tianshi Mansion. Her face shows vicissitudes of life and fatigue, like a traveler who has been traveling all year round. .

The girl looked at Jing Zhe's expression and was slightly stunned. She was from an ordinary background, and her father was always in a hurry and running around for the family. That year, there was a problem with the family's business and the capital chain was broken. At night, like Jing Zhe, her father also revealed the mixed time. With a sad expression of heartless loss and backfired pain, she comforted her softly:

"Senior sister must have been suppressed by that evil man at that time. I heard from the teacher that that evil man was quickly promoted and favored by His Majesty. He continued to make great contributions and entered the Central Committee. Finally, he took over from His Majesty through the failure of the Northern War. Power, given that person's thirst for power, the senior sister must have been suppressed very miserably."

"But it doesn't matter, senior sister." She said in a low voice: "Although my grades in Tianshi Mansion are not very good, I have also heard stories about people who do too much injustice and will be killed. That big evil man is now pretending to be a tiger to deceive the saints. Listen, by relying on Your Majesty’s prestige to act against her will, the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty were intimidated by her like clay puppets, but if she continues like this, the power of counterattack will definitely become stronger and stronger, and she will have to pay the price sooner or later!"

Jingzhe glanced at her. When the girl stated her speculation, she was very confident and confident, with rare confidence and persistence. Her beautiful chestnut eyes were sparkling, and even her tears were as clear and translucent as the sun.

If it were in the past, she would have smiled helplessly at this moment and comforted her, "Maybe, everything you said will happen eventually." After that, she would hide alone in the office of the chief executive on the rain terrace and convince herself over and over again in front of the mirror.

But she is really not in the mood now. The lecturer's rush is the last straw. It is the painful guilt that she asks young people again and again with pale tenderness whether they are willing to go forward to the inevitable end. People who know the truth are not necessarily happy, because Sometimes if the truth is too painful, it will only bring endless pain:

For example, she knew early on that in order to curb the growth of the North and the evil spirits, even if the young people were lucky enough to survive a series of close-to-death battles and become veterans who survived hundreds of battles, what was waiting for them was nothing more than the Flame Emperor. An order was issued, signed by her, to force the extension of the service period - the treatment was naturally improved. In order to enhance the young man's desire to survive and fight, they would even attach photos of his relatives' lives and autographed letters with the letter. Let this person The legendary lonely veteran wailed silently and tiredly in the dark night when he couldn't see his hands, and then the next day, he waved his arms and continued to fight.

But Jingzhe can ask his mind because of this

No shame?

Could she maybe convince herself for one year, maybe for two years, three years, five years, or even... ten years?

Having experienced Jingzhe for ten years, I know that it cannot be done.

Chapter 216 Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

"Well... that's not really true. Although I was suppressed, I also cooperated. I was forced by the evil person you mentioned to do many things that I regret for life, such as conscription, and promoting the welfare policy of preferential treatment for families of soldiers. Sometimes I can't even tell the difference. I don't know what the difference is between me and her. No matter whether they were kind, greedy or of blood, all the civil and military officials in the dynasty did the same thing under her instructions. However, I was unwilling to accept it, so I wanted to come to the lecturer and ask what should I do in the future? "

Jingzhe pretended to be comforted, her hard smile flashed away, and then asked the girl:

"I heard the flavor of ideals and persistence in your words. You will definitely be a firm and correct person in the future. I want to ask, what would you do if you were in my position?"

"Well……"

The girl was stunned for a moment, then said calmly:

"I, I am not as powerful as my senior sister. Even if I enter the court in the future, it will probably be difficult to gain a foothold. I am not even qualified to be instructed by that person. But, I won't just let it go. I want to report it. Tell your majesty, let your majesty see through the true face of that evil person, and let her receive the punishment she deserves!"

"true colors?"

Jingzhe was confused and asked her: "Judging from my experience in the court, although the evil man implemented the conscription policy in the Yan Kingdom, he had no bad personal ethics and everything he did was just. If you want to bring her down, you only need to I’m afraid it will become more difficult.”

"How come there is no loss!"

The girl gritted her teeth and said with an angry blush on her face: "When I was admitted to the Tianshi Mansion, my family's business failed and we were too poor to take the blame. In order to make the family better, my father signed up to be a soldier and wanted to use welfare benefits to improve the family, but , but they don’t mean what they say!”

"My father only stayed at home for less than two days before he was forcibly taken away. After he left, my mother missed me terribly, and the family had no source of income. The officials who had vowed to provide welfare benefits ignored them and occasionally brought money and food. , I really asked my mother if she would like to serve as a soldier in the north!"

The girl's eyes were red and she was holding back tears, but the grief and despair given by fate could not be restrained by patience.

Even though she tried her best to endure it and didn't want to show her inner embarrassment in front of Jingzhe, the salty tears still burst out of the frame and couldn't be stopped:

"I still remember it very clearly. The official said, 'Madam, I know that you were once a powerful warrior, but now you miss your husband in the north, and you are no longer the same as before. Now the situation is complicated, and he It's hard to get the news back, but I have an opportunity here to send a group of people to the same detachment as your husband. What do you think?'"

"'As for your daughter... with your current condition, if it continues, it will be difficult for her to survive. If you go to the north, I can promise you to take care of her and send her to Tianshi Mansion to study. , all of this can be notarized at the Yanguo government and will definitely be implemented. What do you think?'"

The girl gritted her teeth as she thought, her face always in a daze was distorted with extremely deep tears of pain, she spoke in a hoarse voice, word by word:

"The official introduced me to the lecturer, who took me personally. I entered the Tianshi Mansion and studied hard. The lecturer saw my hatred. He secretly went to my house and investigated the past. When he came back, he did not persuade me. I gave up taking revenge and forgiving the evil man, but told me to be patient and wait for the opportunity."

"But I can see that the teacher hates that evil man. He is too angry and indignant, but because I, an orphan and a burden, have to endure it and hold the depression in his heart, the more he holds it in, the more miserable he becomes. It wasn’t until I was about to graduate and met many senior brothers and sisters under the arrangement of the teacher that he signed up to go to the North to comfort those who died in the North.”

boom--!

Jingzhe swayed again and again as if she had been hit hard on the head by a heavy hammer. She looked pale and lost her composure like never before. She stammered and asked:

"Lecturer, lecturer, he called a former student?"

"Yes." The girl was still immersed in painful and intense emotions. When she heard Jingzhe's question, she answered Qilin without thinking. After a while, she realized what Jingzhe meant and quickly explained to Qilin:

"But, but the lecturer introduced senior brothers and sisters who have not been noticed by the evil man. People like you, senior sister, who have made achievements in the court are in more danger. They will be noticed by the evil man easily. Teacher, he should It’s because I’m afraid of hurting you, so…”

Jingzhe just looked at her with a smile that looked like she was crying. At this moment, the reason Qilin had insisted on convincing herself and desperately hypnotizing her was for the sake of Yan country fell apart. She gently patted the girl's shoulder and said with unconcealable bitterness Comfort her:

"I know, I know, that big villain is now in power. Even if someone like me wants to help you, it will only drag you into an unprecedented whirlpool and end up harming you. That's why the lecturer didn't contact me. , So, you have to seize the opportunity, and with the help of those senior brothers and sisters, find a chance to defeat that big evil guy, right?"

Qilin was weak but vowed to encourage her:

"You want to defeat Qilin, stop her actions, and restore Yanguo's former order, right?"

"Uh-huh!"

The girl's eyes were shining brightly, and it was clear that she had been in pain not long ago, as if she had been struck by a storm.

The young bird that was repeatedly tortured has now become a carefree nightingale. The girl looked at Jingzhe, smiled and stretched out her hand:

"Sister, please hold on and don't be harmed by the villain!"

"Well, of course."

Jingzhe stretched out his hand to shake hers, the first time the villain and the avenger shook hands.

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She staggered and left the Tianshi Mansion in a state of embarrassment. It was obviously summer, but she felt that the severe cold had infected her whole body. Even her bones and teeth were creaking and hitting each other as if she was suffering from a cold disease.

What have I done? !

Almost escaping back to the rain terrace, the blond figure looked at the strange stranger in the mirror and signed the paper with a stern face.

Where did Yan Guo go, Qilin decided to travel around to investigate like he did when he was young.

Chapter 217 Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

"This! I don't want to talk about this, my dear daughter!"

The old man's dark face was wrinkled nervously. He has a very old face, which has been left with too many deep marks by suffering. The sweat-soaked labor under the scorching sun all year round has made the skin rough and dark red, which brings people who live in a mobile city. Invisible bronzer.

His wrinkles were so dense that his original appearance could not be seen clearly. Only the thin cheeks, deep cracks, and broken skin could be seen from the fatigue of being precarious and having to work every day.

Jingzhe was wearing her most ordinary and people-friendly clothes at this time, a light cream-colored loose top, khaki thick thick-leg pants with loose legs, plus a straw hat, hiking boots, fixed suspenders and ordinary clothes commonly used when traveling in the wild. The gray cloak and the embarrassment of walking in the wilderness for several days finally made her get rid of her usual high position of sitting in the highest office on the rain terrace, and she began to look at the people and things she saw with the eyes of her youth.

However, time has changed a lot of things after all. When she was young, she would still be impulsive. She would get angry because the old man was covered in scars and his palms were too thick to hold tightly due to a thick layer of calluses. She would go to trouble local officials. But now Qilin could easily calm down and calmly asked the old man why he still worked in such a harsh environment:

"Uncle, I heard that Yanguo's agricultural subsidies have increased a lot recently. Why do you have to go out in this weather? It's so hot that you'll get heat stroke."

Qilin in disguise handed over a paper cup filled with salt water, and the old man drank it with a hoarse voice. The slightly salty water tasted very strange and did not even quench his thirst. However, experienced people knew that they should drink it after working under the scorching sun. This kind of water is mixed with salt, otherwise it is easy to faint from heat stroke.

"Thank you little girl, thank you little girl!"

The old man returned the paper cup to Jingzhe with great gratitude, and squeezed out a smile on his face that was peeled by the high temperature, revealing a smile with missing teeth. The wrinkles on his face were hard to fit and crowded, and his face was expressionless. The hard mask, damaged and solidified by wind and frost, twisted into a smile due to the owner's intention to show kindness.

But this did not make Jingzhe sympathize. What she sensed from this face was not happiness or other meanings, but only deep fatigue and hopeless bitterness. Just looking at his lifeless eyes, she could realize that he was skinny and pitiful. How much torture of fate is contained in the body.

Therefore, from these lips that are even whitened by the sun, where can any words of praise be uttered?

"Girl, are you a city girl?"

The old man sighed, and what he said only received a perfunctory nod from Jingzhe - anyone with eyes could tell that the woman in front of him, who was completely incompatible with the wilderness from her clothes to her temperament, was not a native of the wilderness. She was ambitious, elegant and elegant. Zhengmao, even though he is older, still has the same high fighting spirit as a young man.

How could a poor person who had spent her whole life making a living in the wilderness have such an expression and clothes as Jingzhe at her age?

Even if they wear festive clothes during festivals, the Yanguo people in the wilderness will wear patches of the same color on the holes to cover up their daily embarrassment.