The puppets' stage play

Chapter 340 Yesterday is gone

"Now you understand, what should you do?"

"........Um."

"Sure enough, I think this will work better. You should thank me."

".......ah."

"Okay, tell me, what do you plan to do in the future?"

Mo Tao raised his head and looked at the smug guy. Although the bruises on his face and body had dissipated, the 'fresh' touch was still vivid in his mind.

"...I thought you would be more mature, but I was wrong." Mo Tao murmured after a moment of silence.

"Huh?!" The woman's gaze became sharp, piercing this side like a sharp knife, and the tangible sight made her skin ache.

"Actually, I know without you having to tell me that Li Yue is your friend, right? However, in my heart, she is ten thousand times better than you!!!"

Mo Tao said these words almost roaring, but Xi Muran was a little confused as to why he was suddenly so excited. However, she rolled her eyes and realized that she had achieved her original goal, which was not bad.

"Forget it, I'm leaving. I will keep an eye on her. If she has a bad life..." Ximen Ruan said as she walked away, and then she turned back with a bright smile on her face.

"I will beat you to death."

Mo Tao sighed, waved his hands tiredly, and turned to leave. He was thinking in his heart that this guy really had a problem with his mind. He only used force and didn't consider other things at all.

Thinking, thinking, he walked away quickly. He never wanted to see this 'painful' place again.

"Okay, now I have to work harder and strive to make my life rich first, and then..." Xi Muran smiled and began to think about the future, and he also had to worry about his father.

Huh, her figure disappeared from the spot instantly, leaving only a few white marks in the air.

The Grand Ceremony was held grandly as everyone expected. After defeating the Alliance of Stars, the Federation has become one of the top forces in this world. Therefore, with the attention of many powerful people from other worlds, the Grand Ceremony has become the symbol of the Federation.

It is not only a place to display force, but also a part of displaying one's own culture. After that, more and more foreign forces came to seek refuge, and the Federation's power was growing rapidly and violently.

Within the Federation, strong men emerged one after another, and the strongest also appeared from time to time, officially announcing that the Federation had entered the era of strong men.

And in the army, there was also news.

The first Luyao is willing to share his name.

As long as they have contributed to the federation or have outstanding combat capabilities, they can be entitled to the title of 'First Seat'. At the same time, he also announced that those with the title of 'First Seat' can be mentored once a year.

As soon as these words came out, no matter whether they were the strong men of the old days or the new generation, they were all shaken. You must know that Lu Yao now is one of the best in the Federation, no, even in the entire universe. The other party's teachings... ..It can be called the greatest treasure in the world.

There are more and more powerful people with the name of "First", but people know that this will not reduce the gold content of the first person. The opponent is still the invincible strong man.

Of course, besides Lu Yao, another being is also shining brightly.

The young girl Xi Muran single-handedly competed with Lu Yao. She had a very high reputation both among the people and in the outside world. However, when she was active, even the idols of her generation seemed extremely bleak. Occasionally, , only then will people talk about it.

As for the princess who was once expected by the public, she has completely disappeared from the federation, and there is no news about her. However, there are rumors circulating that she seems to have left her post and traveled to the outside world.

And her fanatical followers are still waiting persistently for the other person to return. They believe that sooner or later, that person will return in full glory, reappearing that golden light, and even facing that young girl, they can still shine with their own unique charm. light.

The times are running rampant, and one strong person after another appears one after another. They have left their famous names in the Federation, in the starry sky, and in other worlds, as symbols of the Federation. At the same time, the Federation is more dazzling because of them.

("As a new federation, we will become stronger and stronger until we become the strongest force in the universe...")

On the order table on the table are the extremely proud voices of the people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They are the mouthpieces responsible for explaining many questions to the people. Even if they are a little uneasy about this turbulent era, as ordinary people, they can only watch silently.

"What a dazzling scene, dad, don't you think?"

The woman who was listening attentively turned her face with a gentle expression on her face, gently stroking her belly with her palms, and looked at the old figure sitting in front of her.

"..." The old man glanced here, but didn't say a word. He just stayed where he was, but he never stood in the courtyard and looked at the sky like before.

"You are not such a cold person, right? I've heard about it too. It seems that you recently helped Uncle Lu next door cure his back pain. I went out before and was thanked for it."

"Not only that, you also have a good reputation around you. Many people have been helped by you." The woman said with a smile, her eyes filled with happiness.

The old man looked straight here. After a long time, he sighed, the tense expression on his face relaxed, and then he shook his head.

"You are really thoughtful. Even though I have been so cold towards you, you still keep talking to me. It reminds me of a certain guy..."

The old man's words stopped for a moment, and then he looked into the distance.

"People live three autumns, and autumn is cold. Even in the future, 'ordinary people' will not disappear. They will just be separated from the current 'Federation' and become existences on two parallel lines."

There was a mysterious tone in his words, and then, the pair of clear black eyes looked this way.

"After giving birth, leave here. Don't go to your hometown or Franks. The same goes for that distant land. Find a corner alone with that incompetent guy and live in silence."

"Even that useless guy is enough to protect you. As long as you don't pursue any power, you can live an ordinary life and die an ordinary life. This is also a choice, and no one will interfere."

The woman looked here with a smile, but slowly but firmly shook her head in response to the old man's gaze.

"A few days ago, Zhu Xing began to train himself again, working very hard and hard."

"Although he told me that he wanted to better protect us, I understand that he was depressed because of the death of his friend. I will not interfere with his decision until he calms down."

Moreover, even if there was no such thing, the other party would not leave this place where he has trusted friends, let alone the suggestion from his father who has a bad relationship.

Both of them knew this kind of thing very well, and they both made a tacit agreement not to mention it.

"...Really." The old man looked away and whispered: "The choice is really cruel, but..."

He shook his head. If that guy really had such a cold mind, then he wouldn't have given up on that guy from the beginning.

"...Did you really give up because your talent in Zhuxing is not good enough?" The woman hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and asked. She knew in her heart that her husband had always been worried about this, but because of the two She couldn't say much about the bad relationship between the two.

"Talent? What a stupid topic." The old man raised his eyebrows slightly, and then sneered, "There is no such thing as talent. Otherwise, when we were weak, we should honestly accept that kind of fate."

The woman opened her mouth to speak, but the old man stretched out his hand to interrupt.

"I know, you want to talk about the federal experiment, but I can also tell you that that experiment is meaningless." The old man shook his head and scorned the experiment.

"Generally speaking, experiments are either a generalization of existing facts or a summary of unknown laws, but that one is different. In my opinion, it is just a 'process' derived from achieving a certain purpose."

"Solidify that 'process' and guide others' attention with fallacious conclusions." A sneer appeared on the old man's face, "I have done this kind of thing a lot, so I can naturally tell."

"...I heard Zhu Xing talk about it once. You seem to be a person who survived from that old era, and..." The woman thought in her heart and organized her words. After all, this It's just her own arbitrary decision.

"Besides, he is also a big sinner." The old man added with a calm expression, and the woman's expression became reluctant.

"Because of me, the survivors went to the battlefield one after another. Therefore, those who survived hated me extremely. In the end, I was arrested because of my failure."

"That's not what I meant..." the woman whispered.

"I know, and I have long been bearish on it. Failure is failure. There is nothing worth caring about." The old man waved his hand and comforted the other party.

"However, it is now. If I had been stubborn before, I probably wouldn't have said such a thing. Yes, if it hadn't been for that guy..." The old man's eyes couldn't help but become dazed.

Memories came flooding in, and the old man felt something in his heart, so he began to tell the story of the 'ordinary stone'.

"That was when I was captured and still in prison..."

Tick, tick.

The clear autumn dew flows down along the top and falls on the ground, causing a chill.

Sitting quietly on the ground, with the food in front of him that was already rotten and filled with sticky bubbles, the man didn't take it seriously and was still thinking about the reason for his failure.

Even though he was abandoned by fate, he still has strength beyond ordinary people and will not die of hunger. As long as he remains firm in his ideals, he will not die easily.

And this is also the last 'mercy' from fate, which can be regarded as a little reward for this scum like him.

Dang Dang Dang.

There was a distant knocking sound in my ears, which was the clarion call for war. Even without me, those people had to fight for survival. After all, those beasts would not let go of the blood on their lips.

After the king beasts disappeared one after another, even the giant beasts also ushered in their decline. It seemed that at the same time, the world became hostile to beasts. Powerful beasts continued to die out, and only the original backbone of beasts became the current ones. overlord.

Compete with the remaining humans for world hegemony.

However, in reality, beasts are still more dominant. Although many giant beasts have disappeared, there are still some remaining parts, but their power is weaker than before. At most, they use their own physical advantages and some superficial understanding of their own energy. use.

It is only three points stronger than the ferocious beast in its heyday.

"The chaotic time is back on track, but the human side has become stronger." The man murmured. He was supposed to control the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, but now he is here. If this continues, humans will definitely win an unprecedented victory. of.

In that case...this history will become like that again.

"I haven't even seen Andri in this era... No wonder fate decided that it was my failure." The man sighed, but there was not much regret in his voice. At least, he tried hard.

If this continues, he will be executed for being useless, in order to eliminate the dissatisfaction among the people, the man thought to himself.

Sashasha, the sound of rubbing against the ground came. It was the sound of the soles of feet touching the fine sand. The man's gaze focused on the corridor in the distance, where there was a faint shaking shadow.

As the sound got closer, the person's face gradually appeared, and then the person's withered face looked this way.

The white coat he wore was a little gray, with a circle of black at the bottom. His body looked extremely thin, his hair was messy, his bones were sunken, and only a pair of eyes looked particularly bright.

"Long time no see, Qi Wei."

Qi Wei turned his eyes, but did not see anyone else. Didn't he want to sacrifice the flag with him? He thought immediately, and then he looked at the person.

"It's so free, Mo Chengshi, you are willing to waste time to see me." Qi Wei looked at the other party with a cold expression. Although the failure was because of the other party, he did not want to do anything that would lower his status.

"Didn't you say that you wanted to surpass me? Now, why don't you show me your results?" Despite this, Qi Wei could not calm down completely, and his words could not help but contain a hint of thorns.

Mo Chengshi looked here steadily, and then, a nostalgic smile appeared on his withered face.

"You haven't changed much. I really envy you." He smiled, as if he were facing a familiar friend.

"...You're about to die." Qi Wei's eyes narrowed, he observed the other person for a moment, and came to the conclusion that this guy has reached the limit both mentally and physically, even if he dies here next moment. , he would not be surprised.

"Ah, of course, if I want to catch up with you, I can't do it without paying the price." Mo Chengshi was extremely calm. Even when he heard the news that his end was approaching, he still had a smile on his face.

"Qi Wei, you are very strong. I am lucky to be born in the same era as you." He looked at Qi Wei and said indifferently, "If it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have achieved what I have today. At most, I would be a Live as an ordinary researcher."

"..." Qi Wei was silent. He naturally knew that this was not the case, but he had no interest in refuting.

"My brother, Mo Huiyan, was once beyond my reach. I respected and feared him, but I didn't think I could get close to him."

"It's the same with you. Without my knowledge, you left me far away. I know very well that I can't achieve the same achievements as you."

"I am just an ordinary person. Even if I try my best, I will only be ignored by you and I can only watch you go further and further away."

Mo Chengshi's voice was filled with a hint of sadness, and then, those bright eyes looked towards this side, and there was a faint flame rising in them.

"I was thinking, thinking hard, even if it was just for a second, I wanted you to take a look at me, and then I understood what I should do."

The trembling palm was raised, the skin and flesh clinging to the bones, like some kind of claw, with a ruby-like stone on it.

"It's precisely because I can make it. I can only do it by giving up everything. This is something that I used everything I had to create."

Qi Wei looked at that thing with a solemn expression, and when his eyes touched it, he vaguely felt a majestic presence.

Mo Chengshi's expression was enthusiastic and his eyes were extremely cold as he kept talking.

"The greatest phenomenon is not to sharpen a diamond to make it shine with astonishing brilliance, but to continuously polish an ordinary and mediocre stone into something more dazzling than any diamond."

"Because of my weakness, my ordinaryness, and my ordinaryness, I can understand its significance. Even geniuses like you can never compare to this kind of power."

"The nameless stone, assuming that something has the possibility of realization, must realize that possibility. It is the possibility in the impossible, the affirmation in the negation, and the 'truth' that can be established even if it is illusory."

Mo Chengshi looked at this side with a wild look on his face. He smiled, threw the 'stone' that he had worked so hard to make towards this side, and then turned around and left without looking back.

"I'll leave the naming rights to you. That's not something a depleted scum like me can do."

The man staggered, then walked away with determination.

Qi Wei silently looked at the red stone in front of him, and then looked at the direction in which the other party was leaving. His heart suddenly felt complicated and incomprehensible, and he whispered.

"The person who once left me far behind... was you, Director Mo."

Qi Wei shook his head, looked at the woman in front of him, and his tone became calm.

"After that, the news came that Mo Chengshi had died. As for that thing, I just took it and handed it to the person who should give it to it at the right time. Of course, I also tried to make a replica. , but the effect is not as good as expected.”

"Like he said, it was something only he could make."

Looking at the woman's complicated expression, Qi Wei smiled instead.

"I say this not because I feel any guilt in my heart. I just feel that if I don't say it, it will be a blasphemy to that person. At least, I hope people can evaluate that person fairly, rather than it being a study from the old era. By."

"That's the real genius, a greater researcher than guys with ceremonial talents like us, at least, that's what I think."

"Then you-" The woman's expression changed, she couldn't help but cover her stomach, beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and she bit her lips.

"It seems the time has come." Qi Wei stood up and looked at the figure running towards him in the distance. It was a figure with a beard and a trace of anxiety on his face.

Qi Wei passed by the other party, but the latter didn't react at all, but came to help the woman with an anxious look on his face.

"Wait a minute, Dad, have you really never regretted it?!" The woman endured the pain and shouted loudly. For some reason, she always felt that after this time, she would never see the other person's face again.

Qi Wei's figure walked further and further away, and only the ethereal voice came over.

"Our time has passed, and it is meaningless to talk about this anymore. I wish you happiness in the future."

The woman's mind relaxed, and she understood that the man was not without any emotional fluctuations, but was just covered up by him. Then, she looked aside and saw that it was her husband.

"Why are you back?"

"Someone informed me..." The man glanced to one side with a gloomy look, and then his eyes softened and he looked this way, "Let's go to the medical hospital. I have a feeling that the time is coming soon."

"Okay..." the woman responded. She glanced into the distance one last time and then looked away.

Three days later, an old man sat quietly on the seat at the entrance of the medical hospital. When others asked him, he said nothing and just waited silently.

As time went by, no one paid attention to him anymore, and he felt relaxed, just waiting with peace of mind for the moment when he witnessed the answer.

"But do you regret it..."

He raised his head and looked at the white ceiling, and couldn't help but think of the face of a certain man. It was the man who once claimed to be his friend, and then died easily in the war.

Suddenly, he felt something in his heart and looked somewhere, where the faint sound of children crying could be heard. His originally tense face softened, and then, a touch of clarity appeared in his eyes.

"So that's how it is, no wonder, it's really a big circle."

He stood up with a pleased smile on his face.

"Whether it is fiction or reality, it is something we have personally experienced. Just understanding this is enough, isn't it?"

He walked toward the inside, and no one else saw him along the way.

After he left, there was the sound of footsteps.

"The last one has also appeared, and the time is coming soon."

"It's up to me to handle the 'handling' here." The visitor sighed softly, and disappeared quietly without being heard by others.

Qi Wei moved forward, heading straight towards his goal. Finally, he stopped in front of a door. He took a step forward and entered inside. Looking at the joyful scene, he looked at his goal.

That was a newborn child, still sleeping quietly at this moment.

"It's so ugly, just like a row of bamboo." He sighed, remembering the scene when he took the child from the woman who was willing to be with him. Of course, he was scolded by the harmonious woman afterwards. .

Now that I think about it, I still miss it a little bit.

He stretched his fingers forward and gently touched the other person's cheek. Then, the child's eyelids opened, and the black pupils looked here, as if he saw an old man that others could not see, and an affectionate look appeared on his face. smile.

"You are the answer I seek, so keep going."

Qi Wei retracted his hand and looked into the distance with his eyes, as if he saw an extremely distant future. Then, his figure became blurred, and was erased frame by frame like a frame-dropping scene.

"Remember, this is the price of pursuing the truth, so if that guy appears in front of you, don't believe it, it will only lead you to misfortune."

"Farewell, this era."

As soon as the words fell, XX disappeared.

"Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow..." While the people around him were busy trying to comfort him, the child was still crying loudly, like a lamentation song.