74. The truth of being late (Part 2)
"Prevent?"
If the previous words only made Lu Hailan feel unhappy and confused, then Flan's last sentence really made him unable to maintain his superficial calm.
The reason is very simple. There is only one way to make the sage of Tien unable to say the name of the successor in person. So this sentence translates into two words - Killing the Master.
Flan's respect for the wise man Tien and his teacher was not false. Lu Hailan certainly knew this. If even such words were deceived when teaching him, Lu Hailan, who had been taught by the other party, had grown up in lies.
"In order to get the wise man's seat... do you even want to kill your own teacher?"
Flan admitted frankly: "Yes, in terms of result, I am also the murderer who killed the teacher."
"……also?"
Lu Hailan did not miss his words, and repeated inconclusively, and suddenly a thought popped up in his mind without warning. Once this thought arises, it cannot be eliminated. He looked at Flan silently, with an ominous premonition in his heart-
"Thirty years ago, the Expeditionary Force discovered an asteroid in the chaotic star field. The probe showed that the planet contained rich mineral resources, a good atmospheric environment, but no signs of life existed. But in fact, there was a very special virus on this planet. The exploration team landed on the surface of the planet brought this virus back to the spacecraft, which resulted in the destruction of the entire spacecraft."
Flan suddenly started telling stories. He always liked to teach Lu Hailan in this way, and the stories he told were always something that had happened.
"Twelve years ago, the Expeditionary Force salvaged the image information left by the spacecraft, and learned about the existence of the asteroid and named it the Death Star No. 343. The Imperial Academy of Sciences was very interested in this image and organized a scientific exploration team to search for the asteroid with the assistance of the Expeditionary Force."
"It took nine years and eventually, they brought back a small vial of virus samples."
Twelve minus nine equals three. Lu Hailan already knew vaguely what Flan wanted to say, and at the same time further confirmed his premonition just now.
"Three years ago, your father, His Majesty the Emperor, Lu Chuxing, made my teacher, also his teacher, the wise man, infected with this virus."
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Eight years ago, after Queen Li Li passed away, the Shuitian Palace where she lives was banned and no one was allowed to enter. This palace was once specially renovated by Emperor Yu Wen for his beloved daughter. The Qingyu Princess Qingyu was built with a large amount of gravity-free structures inside, and a huge "cloud bed" was created in the bedroom. It is said that it was just because of a joke from the princess that she wanted to sleep on the clouds.
However, Emperor Yu Wen's love failed to retain Princess Qingyu's fragile life. She died at the age of fourteen. Ten years later, His Majesty Lu Chuxing succeeded to the throne, renovated the palace and renamed it to Shuitian Palace, and gave it to Empress Li Li.
The palace that had been sealed for a long time was silent. A figure stood under the hanging cloud bed, raised his head, waiting in vain like countless times in the past... Waiting, a lazy-looking girl emerged from the clouds.
He will never wait for her.
It's been one year or two, three or five years, eight years. He once thought that this pain would fade with time, but the facts were just the opposite. The longer the time passed, the clearer the pain became and the more real it became.
He was as if he was waking up from a dream that could not be reproduced. The more he woke up, the more painful he was.
"Teen is dead, I'll kill him."
He murmured to himself.
"I know you hate me, and I thought about what I would choose if I were given another chance."
The words echoed in the empty palace. His Majesty the supreme emperor of the empire was like a child who had lost his beloved, lowered his head in a daze and lost state, staring at his empty hands.
The more people get, the more satisfied they will feel. It is as if at this moment, he clearly owns the entire empire, but still feels that he has nothing.
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The ringtone for communication request suddenly rang in the laboratory. Lu Hailan looked at the flange, who picked up the communicator placed next to the noodle bowl and connected the communication in front of Lu Hailan.
"Well... I got it, I will arrive on time."
He put down the communicator and did not explain anything to Lu Hailan. Instead, he continued the topic just now: "His Majesty the Emperor originally wanted to kill my teacher at that time, but three years ago, the death of Empress Bai disrupted his plan. Under the situation at that time, if my teacher suddenly died suddenly, the Light will undoubtedly immediately raise the handle of his throne and fight back against him, and the Bai family in the northern border will have the opportunity to raise the anti-flag."
Lu Hailan's eyes turned dim when he thought of the death of Princess Bai. Her death involved too many people and too many things. However, for him, it was more like an end. The peaceful and happy days he once had ended completely on that day.
"So His Majesty the Emperor chose a mutant virus with the same lethality and a longer lurking cycle." Flan said in a calm tone, "While he started to suppress the Bai family, he was patiently waiting for my teacher to die. Now he has firmly sat in the emperor's position, and the handle on the Illuminati can no longer pose any threat to him. It is conceivable that when my teacher dies, he will spare no effort to attack the Illuminati."
Inflection point, mathematically, the inflection point is also called a reflex point. An upward or downward curve will change the original extension direction at this point. This word is often used in the records of past history, which is the so-called inflection point of history.
This is not accidental.
For a long time, the unknown and far-reaching struggle between the Lu royal family and the Illuminati Society will eventually determine the outcome and the development of the times and end the termination. On the one hand, it is trying to restrict the imperial power, and on the other hand, it is naturally the unfavorable side. The intellectual and technological advantages they occupy are gradually offset by the continuous development of the empire. The peaceful external environment and the continuous enrichment and diversification of human social civilization have also led to the increasing proportion of faith in people's lives.
Lu Hailan looked at flange.
"You want to be a sage, save the Illuminati from my father?" he asked.
Flan smiled and shook his head.
"That is the teacher's wish, not mine. Your Highness, you, me, my teacher, Your Majesty the Emperor, Lu Fan... All of us have the meaning of our own existence and are part of the torrent of this era. No matter where this era will eventually flow, all we can do is to do our best to move towards our own direction."
"What the hell do you want to do?"
"I want something." Flan replied, "things that can only be obtained by becoming a sage."
Lu Hailan narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "What is it?"
Flan raised his hand, his gray finger bones spread flat in front of him, and there was nothing inside. He stared at his palm and spoke slowly.
"What I want is the secret of the Tower of Light."
"It's not only me, but His Majesty the Emperor is determined to win it. In order to get the secret of the Tower of Light, he chose to trade with Lu Fan and use the secret of the Tower of Light as the price to support Lu Fan as a sage. So, my real enemy has always been your father."
Lu Hailan understood a lot of things in an instant and had a lot of things to say, but after a while, he finally asked, "Why tell me?"
Flan had sufficient reasons for concealing and deceiving before. If he was an enemy of His Majesty the Emperor, then staying by Lu Hailan is the most dangerous. Zhu Yan and Wayne Du, everyone in the other palaces are the eyes and ears of His Majesty the Emperor, and Lu Hailan is the son of His Majesty the Emperor after all.
Flan looked at Lu Hailan without answering. When he was a child, his mother always lied to him to play games with him, let him hide in the cupboard, close his eyes, cover his ears, and don’t come out no matter what happens outside. In this way, she would reward him with candy. So on the day his father killed his mother by drinking and wrongly, he hid in the cupboard as usual. Until the next day, the neighbor called the police, the sheriff did not find him out of the cupboard.
They said that their mother was stabbed twice by her father and suffered too much blood and was shocked. If they called the police for rescue in time, they would not have to die.
He should not believe his mother's lies. When he grows up, he becomes difficult to believe others because even a kind lie will make irreversible mistakes. Instead of believing in others, he believes in his own judgment more, and is used to relying on himself to solve problems, and learns to use lies to achieve his goals.
"Sometimes I really feel that fate is really incredible."
Eight years ago, he came to another palace and became Lu Hailan's teacher. At that time, he never expected that the six-year-old child in front of him would have such a profound impact on his life.
Lu Hailan is like a mirror. What he teaches him will be reflected on it very clearly and shine back on himself. His expectation for him has become expectations for himself, and his demands for him have become demands for himself.
Even the light he taught him was reflected back ten times a hundred times, which in turn lit up the fire in his own heart.
"For you, I have become a good teacher."
Flan asked back with a sincere smile from the bottom of his heart—
Chapter completed!