Bei Gong Mu grabbed the wine bottle and filled the glass with his backhand. He curled his lips and said jokingly: "How come Mr. Li has the time to come here to drink with me? Isn't that just making people inside want to curry favor with you?"
Are you disappointed!?”
"Your mouth is still as tricky as before..."
Shaking the glass gently, Li Kuixing shook his head and said with a smile: "I warned you back then that speaking openly will make you offend many people who shouldn't be offended, but you just didn't listen!"
There was a pause.
Li Kuixing continued: "With your strength, your current achievements should be far above mine. It is because of this mouth that it has hindered your future. You have been trapped in Longdu for so many years and you still don't have a long memory!"
"Stop it, I think it's unnecessary!"
He raised his head and drank the wine in one gulp.
Bei Gong Mu waved his hand and said indignantly: "I think Longdu is quite good. This is my hometown, the place where I was born and raised. As for activities such as promotion and wealth, it is not suitable for me and I am not interested at all!
"
His eyes suddenly froze.
Li Kuixing narrowed his eyes and smiled sadly to himself: "In your opinion, power must be a thing full of dirty deeds?"
The empty wine glass in his hand paused in mid-air.
Bei Gong Mu slowly took a puff of his cigar and did not respond immediately.
"Honestly, have you ever thought about a question..."
Staring at the red wine in the glass.
Li Kuixing spoke eloquently: "I'm afraid our ideals when we were young were wrong from the beginning. There is no so-called absolute equality between people, and there is no clear distinction between black and white..."
"This world is about the jungle. Strength and power serve the strong, but you want to use them to protect the public. This is simply an impossible daydream!"
He took a sip of the red wine in his glass and acted calmly and elegantly like an old noble.
Li Kuixing raised his head and sighed.
"Over the years, your arrogant attitude towards the powerful has laid the foundation for your troubles. Whether it is the Great Xia Empire or any other country, what the superiors are most worried about is someone like you who has great strength but is...
You are an outlier who does not fit in with others. If you isolate yourself and stand on the opposite side of power, you will only get endless suppression and alienation! "
Halfway through the conversation.
Li Kuixing looked at Bei Gongmu, gritted his teeth and asked, "Why do you continue to do these stupid things?!"
"Because it's ideal!"
Holding a cigar in his mouth, Beigong Mu responded: "Save this apocalyptic wasteland civilization so that everyone can live with dignity. Isn't this the common wish of everyone fifteen years ago!?"
Startled violently.
Li Kuixing was speechless, as the childish smiling faces of countless people flashed through his mind.
Slowly blow out the smoke.
Beigong Mu looked up at the starry sky and murmured to himself: "For this ideal, we have fought our lives together, Murong Yao, Feng Juro, and...many others have died fighting for this.
The team fell apart and the remaining people went their separate ways, but that doesn't mean our choice was wrong..."
"This world may not distinguish between black and white, but there will definitely be right and wrong!"
Falling off the burnt cigarette ashes.
Beigong Mu frowned and said: "Over the years, everything I have done in Longdu is to stick to the faith of the past, to establish my heart for the world, and to establish my destiny for the people. Even if the emperor of the Great Xia Empire put a knife on me,
I will still do the same thing on my neck!"
Take a deep breath.
Beigong Mu looked at Li Kuixing and asked in a deep voice: "Let me ask you, as a national night watchman, you protect the people of this country and fight for the safety of the public. What's wrong with this!?"
The sonorous and powerful voice echoed in Li Kuixing's ears.
The two looked at each other.
When they reunited again fifteen years later, they found that their ideas were completely different!
"You damn blind guy..."
With a wry smile, Li Kuixing filled up the wine for the other party. He deliberately changed the subject and said, "You are so old, how come you are still as excited as you were back then?"
"Haha, don't do this!"
Taking back the wine glass, Beigong Mu smiled and said: "It would be better to say that your boy has been a high official in the imperial city for more than ten years. He has been dazzled by the glory and wealth and has forgotten his roots!"
The smile at the corner of his mouth could not help but stiffen.
More than ten years of official career have indeed smoothed Li Kuixing's edges.
I don’t know when it started, but the high-spirited young man back then has now become a philistine and vulgar.
But who can understand Li Kuixing’s suffering?!
Being in a center of power like the Imperial City and Tiger City, every step must be taken with extreme caution. If you are not careful at all, you will fall into an irreversible situation.
The beliefs and ideals of those days have long been completely wiped out in the day-to-day power struggle!
Li Kuixing may be a little disappointed about this, but he will definitely not feel regretful.
When people are in the arena, they can’t help themselves!
Everyone has the right to choose their own path. Li Kuixing just chose the easiest path for him!
The two of them were holding wine glasses.
Everyone was silent for a long time with their own thoughts.
"Blind man, come back to the imperial city and Hudu with me!" Li Kuixing suddenly suggested, putting down his wine glass.
Poof~~!
A mouthful of wine suddenly spurted out far away.
Bei Gong Mu wiped his mouth and looked at Li Kuixing with a dumb smile!
"I'm serious..."
Frowning his brows, Li Kuixing said bluntly: "Your style of conduct is too arrogant. Things will turn to the extreme, and force will bring about its own setbacks. If this continues, something unexpected will happen to you. Resign from the position of Director of the Operations Division of the Longdu War Readiness Department and come back with me."
Imperial City, with your ability, as long as you are willing to swear allegiance to the Daxia royal family, your future will be limitless. Besides, with me here, we brothers may be able to accomplish something great if we work together..."
"Are you... kidding?" Beigong Mu couldn't laugh or cry.
"I'm serious!"
Li Kuixing raised his head and narrowed his eyes, adding more emphasis: "As long as you are willing to go to Hudu to serve the royal family, at worst, I will give you my position as the chief manager of the Forbidden Palace!"
He glanced at Li Kuixing, who had a sincere face.
Bei Gong Mu tilted his chin, his expression astonished to the extreme.
"How is it!?" Li Kuixing asked impatiently.
"Hahahaha...not good!"
He threw his head back and laughed a few times.
Beigong Mu couldn't help but laugh and took off his sunglasses.
Under the lens is a pair of hazy gray pupils, which reflect an inexplicable luster under the moonlight.
"I have no interest at all in being a high-ranking official and receiving fame and wealth!"
Looking at the brightly lit city at night.
Beigong Mu raised the corner of his mouth and asked: "Longdu has a permanent population of about 3.87 million. Calculated based on a family of three, there are at least 1.29 million families in this fortress city.
..."
"This is my hometown!"
Taking a deep puff of his cigar, Longdu War God grinned and said, "They need me!"
Staring into Beigong Mu's gray eyes.
A trace of decisive disappointment flashed between his brows, and Li Kuixing smiled bitterly and said: "It doesn't matter, everyone has their own ambitions. I won't force you..."
From this moment on——
Li Kuixing knew very well that there was no room for easing the conflict between him and Bei Gong Mu!
Beigong Mu wants to protect the millions of common people in Longdu. This is precisely the key point that the royal family of the Great Xia Empire cannot tolerate!
What the human heart desires is treachery!
Li Kuixing has already done both what he should and shouldn't do, and a bloody purge has officially begun.
No one can prevent the tragedy from happening, everything is inevitable!