Chapter 1 The Darkest Hour (1)
If the universe is compared to a sea, darkness is boundless sea water, and the brilliant light of countless stars is just the sporadic waves on the sea surface.
In the deep and dark void, ripples suddenly rippled, just like a plum blossom appeared in the sky. The ripples quickly became three-dimensional, and soon a whirlpool-like tunnel formed, terrifying, mysterious and shocking, and did not know its depth.
A gray rectangular giant jumped out of the tunnel.
This is not the end.
Starships with different styles are like fish coming out of the water, emerging from the space channel one after another, and in the blink of an eye it gathers into a large group of fan-shaped flowing fish.
Compared with the first rectangular starship, the subsequent starship is smaller in size, but even the smallest starship is larger than the Changan ship. As the last starship merges into the formation, the space channel quickly disappears and the star field space returns to peace.
This fleet of tens of thousands of starships has not stopped at all after perfecting the formation, and it sails forward as if it is slow and fast.
In front of them are seven star fields that indicate crystal spheres, each of which is the size of the solar system.
In front of these seven huge spherical star fields, a fleet of tens of thousands of starships looks small and unremarkable. The distance between the two sides is not far or near, and at the speed shown by the fleet, it only takes a few Earth days to reach the nearest star field.
At this moment, in the window of the rectangular starship command cabin, a middle-aged man in a dark military uniform and tall figure was looking through the vast and dark universe with his naked eyes at the star field built by seven people through the window of Qingming.
He has a face with a meticulously trimmed beard, his facial features are as contoured as a knife and axe, and his small eyes are particularly profound and sharp. He just stood silently with his hands behind his back, giving people a feeling of being above his mountain.
In the huge command cabin, except for the middle-aged soldiers on the platform, there is no human, no busy drivers, and no various control consoles. The emptiness and silence are the only theme here.
After a while, the cabin door of the command cabin was opened. A young female officer, who was also wearing a standard military uniform, had a graceful and elegant face, and had a gentle and quiet temperament, walked in with a tray in her hand.
On the tray was a bottle of red wine, and the goblet showed a bloody color. The female officer with the rank of captain on her collar delivered the red wine to the middle-aged man and said softly: "General, the wine is here."
The middle-aged general with an iron-faced look picked up the wine glass, but did not deliver it to his mouth. Instead, he continued to look ahead and asked his personal guard: "What did you see?"
The young female officer looked out of the ship following the middle-aged general's eyes. The starship was still a distance away from the seven huge crystal balls. From here, the other party looked like seven gems dotted in the night sky.
"The guilt of mankind, our enemy." The young female officer said without thinking.
Her voice was soft and gentle, but she had a gentle force.
The middle-aged general did not comment, but just took a sip of wine.
"What did the general see?" asked the female captain curiously.
"dark."
"dark?"
"The universe belongs to darkness. Humans are born to fear darkness. Compared with the vast darkness, our light is too small, not even as good as a boat in the vast ocean. In fighting against such a world, we are destined to have a tragic fate. You say yes, right?" The middle-aged general
Asked lightly.
The female captain stood straight, but her gentle voice made a sonorous tone: "But we are the only ones who can bring light to this darkness!
"In the era of eating raw meat and drinking blood, when night came, we hid in the cave, and lit a bonfire at the entrance of the cave to drive away wild animals. Later, we built countless cities with brilliant lights; in the era of navigation, we rode a wooden boat, facing the surging and boundless sea, sailed towards the lighthouse, and thus a new continent was created;
"In the interstellar era, the darkness we face is wider than the wilderness outside the cave and the waves in the sea, but we are still moving forward. Where the light of the starship shines, there is our world!
"General, for the sake of the bright future of human beings on earth, we will have no regrets even if we die in battle!"
Faced with these passionate words, the middle-aged general remained silent.
He said: "The entire blue civilization regards us as heretics, betrayers, and splitters. What we have to face is not only the darkness of the universe, but also the darkness of human hearts. In the darkness of human hearts, the darkness brought by stupidity is the most stubborn and powerful."
He pointed to the seven crystal balls in front of him, "They said that it was the last hope of the Blue Civilization, but you know that it was actually the most undesirable sin of the Blue Civilization. In order to destroy them, we try our best and may even be wiped out. Are you not afraid?"
The army went deeper and reached the most core area of the enemy. Of course, the female captain knew the fate of her fleet. Even if they successfully destroyed the seven star fields, they would most likely not be able to go back.
She bit her lower lip white, and she felt fear in her heart, but what was stronger than fear was her belief.
"In the darkest moment, light is with us!" The female captain raised her chest and raised her head, and vowed to be firm.
The middle-aged army nodded slightly.
He turned around and patted the female captain's shoulder, signaling the other party to relax, his tone was calm: "Captain Mo, our life is a life of looking forward to dawn and fighting against darkness.
"Maybe we will eventually fall in this boundless dark night and become a speck of dust in the universe, and the bones will quietly sink to the end of the unknown. But we will not give up moving forward, even if we fall, disappearing will be the fate of humans on earth.
"Because we are always a group of people who are in the darkest abyss and have a heart towards the light. Those who are close to my ambition but cannot reach it can have no regrets. It is not important how others view us. History will eventually justify us."
After saying that, in the respectful gaze of the female captain, the middle-aged general looked at the window again and continued to stare at the vast star field outside the ship. He drank the bloody wine in his glass, "If there are still historical books in the future of mankind."
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In the autumn of the ninth year of Tianshu in the Tang Dynasty, when Li Ye was studying the triumphant army outside Chang'an City, he was born with a strange phenomenon, with two starships, Nuwa and Pangu, appearing. At that time, the military and civilians were shocked.
Before the riots, Li Ye told everyone that it was just the work of the immortals under his command, and it was his early attempt to break the barriers between immortals and mortals.
Since it was written by immortals, the Tang people were not surprised. They have heard enough of immortals descending to earth over the years.
Time flies to the fifteenth year of Tianshu, and the gap between the immortals and mortals has completely disappeared. The people of the Tang Dynasty from the east to Teodywacan and the west to Constantinople have become accustomed to the scenes of immortals flying across the mountains and rivers.
If twenty years ago, immortals were everywhere in the mortal world, let alone the people would
Panic and worship, once the immortals act recklessly, there is no power to check and balance in the mortal world, and there will undoubtedly be chaos.
But now all this is different. For so many years, Tang Pu has practiced the exercises, and every household has monks, and there will be masters in real human realm in ten miles and eight villages. People's views on immortals have fundamentally changed.
Nowadays, people generally only regard immortals as great monks, and few people regard them as gods. The most common method used by the people of the Tang Dynasty to motivate their children is to point to the immortal monks flying through the air and tell their kids that as long as they are willing to practice hard, they will be like them in the future.
We have sharp weapons and fly to the sky and hide in the earth. This is the inherent expectation of people. One is that we have been fighting against various dangers and fears since our birth, and the other is that we lack a sense of security when we are rooted in the depths of our bloodlines and our infinite yearning for freedom.
This way of motivating young people is more useful than telling them to work hard to change their destiny.
In Chang'an Palace City, when the first ray of sunshine at dawn shone into the hall, Li Ye, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes, and there was a little strange color in his calm eyes.
"From the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm to the Saint Realm, there are indeed great barriers. The Tang Dynasty unified this world for many years, and in the newly conquered territory, countless powers of luck gathered every day, but to this day, I am still a little short of the Saint Realm."
Thinking of this, Li Ye couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. The whole country - now it is said that the power of the world is more appropriate - the power of the world has taken several years to achieve peace in the world, but he still has not achieved the realm of a saint, which is indeed a little disappointed.
"Compared with the people of Goryeo, Japan, and Western countries, which have always been influenced by our Han and Tang civilizations, they are indeed much more stubborn. It is very difficult to educate them. Today, there are still many people who have not been loyal to the dynasty."
Of course, Li Ye knew that his cultivation had no breakthrough, but he couldn't hurry up. It would take time to make everyone in the world turn from their bones into Tang people. Even if the Tang Dynasty is in harmony and people's living standards have improved many times, many people will not be moved by their strength so quickly.
"Your Majesty, Secretary Lu asks for a visit."
Just when Li Ye was about to wash and eat, he heard the eunuch report at the palace gate.
There would be no one else who would come so early to disturb him, except Lu Linxuan. In order to teach this guy to adapt to the rules of the palace, Li Ye spent a lot of energy. He didn't know whether this behavior of "ancient people" training "descendants" to know etiquette was considered a regression.
"Xuan." Li Ye walked out of the hall gate. After saying this, he saw Lu Linxuan floating like a wind.
Lu Linxuan is under Li Ye's command, so the latter naturally has to give him a position. Since etiquette rules need to be followed, everything must be done according to the rules. Lu Linxuan is now managing external affairs, and Li Ye and Wei Lan civilized communication are all done through her, so he gave the other party a position similar to the Six Ministers.
For a long time, Lu Linxuan refused to be an official in the Tang Dynasty, yelling that he would not kneel down to salute Li Ye. Later, after Li Ye promised her not to kneel down, she had to compromise due to the general situation, but asked for the position of prime minister. In short, even if the position was lowered, she would not rely on it.
Chapter completed!