Chapter 87: The Sea of ​​Stars

A few days later, Tai Zhiyuan came to southwest of Jingzhou.

The endless blue sea surface stretches from the silver beach to the distance and spreads to the horizon. The sea water on the beach gently caresses the white sand like a lover's hand, swaying. People who look at this beautiful scene may feel a feeling of vast sea and light wind and clouds in their hearts.

There were two white lounge chairs under the parasol. In the woods behind the beach, there were many bodyguards from the Black Hawk Security Company, who were watching all the movements around him vigilantly. Butler Jin, who was already old, stood calmly under the eaves of the beach water platform, avoiding the still strong sunshine in the evening, and avoiding the conversations of young people on the two white lounge chairs.

"Your mental state is actually something I didn't expect before I came. I thought that the unfortunate death of that girl would make you depressed for many days." Tai Zhiyuan, wearing a white light numb shirt, looked at Xu Le calmly beside him and found that although the other person's eye sockets were slightly sunken and his face was not as rosy as before, at least he was still refreshed.

Zhang Xiaomeng naturally did not die normally.

The spacecraft's open-ground transfer cabin lost control and fell to the ground, turning into a ball of fireworks. Afterwards, no clues were found to be ripped off. The government's investigation results could only be judged as a crash, but there was Zhang Xiaomeng's name on the list of dead passengers. People like Tai Zhiyuan naturally understood the behind-the-scenes reason for this matter immediately.

The direction of investigation of the assassination of the Linhai Prefecture Stadium in various departments was different. Most officials were staring at Deputy Minister Yang Jinsong of the Ministry of National Defense who had committed suicide. They also found the director of the Linhai htd bureau, and Shi Qinghai, and inexplicably dug up a spy network of the anti-government army... But Tai Zhiyuan knew that the last assassination against him could not be related to the anti-government army, and Deputy Minister Yang could not cooperate with those people in Qinglong Mountain. There is another person behind the scenes.

The government needs to calm down and find a scapegoat to explain to the Tai family. On the surface, the Tai family can only accept the government's investigation results before there is no other evidence, but the officials who can influence the affairs that the wife has already begun to investigate the other clues.

As the investigation of the truth gradually approaches the fact, there is a way to eliminate the evidence and the intermediate link. Zhang Xiaomeng's death is undoubtedly a cold silence.

The afternoon sun in Jingzhou was still a little fierce. Two flushings appeared on Tai Zhiyuan's usual pale face. It should be because the temperature was too high and it had nothing to do with health. He asked a question like Xu Le beside him, and then began to remain silent, squinted his eyes and stared at the blue sea surface where seagulls occasionally flew over.

At the Bimonthly Festival dance, the girl in a blue dress died. A complicated emotion flashed in Tai Zhiyuan's eyes. If it weren't for his family's insistence on secret investigation and gradually threatening the other side, Zhang Xiaomeng was not very important, but the female student who played an important role in the assassination information should be able to survive, right?

Tai Zhiyuan thought about this, but he was not guilty or heavy. Although he was not old, he had already had calmness that his peers did not have. The word calmness can also be called indifference in some environments.

"Can the police find any clues?" Xu Le, who had been silent, finally spoke and asked: "Although I know that politics is very dark, a federal MP who did such a thing, wouldn't anyone punish him? What's the use of federal law?"

Tai Zhiyuan's narrowed eyes gradually opened. He looked at Xu Le in surprise. He thought Xu Le didn't know about Zhang Xiaomeng's background and many details in the entire incident, so he didn't know why the other party knew that the matter was done by Congressman Medellin?

"I know more than you do." Xu Le looked at the fine sand in his toes and said, "So I know who did this."

"Federal law emphasizes evidence, and those politicians... never leave any direct evidence that may be accused." Tai Zhiyuan looked at Xu Le and was silent for a long time before he said in a serious tone: "The clue of investigating the militants directly led to the suicide of seven officers in the Second Military Region. Even if the federal government can find some clues about this crash, I believe it is definitely not enough to send the other party to court."

"What I'm curious about is why you confirmed that the mastermind behind the scenes is that of the Medellin Councilor."

"Logic, intuition, who will benefit..." Xu Le narrowed his eyes in the sun, gently squeezed the sand with his toes, and lowered his head and said, "He is already running for vice president. How can such a person become the leader of the federal government?"

"It's hard to do anything without evidence." Tai Zhiyuan said calmly: "If I ask someone to release this news, not many federal public will believe that his image has always been excellent... and maybe this will give him a chance to build momentum and play himself as an innocent politician who has been framed by the conspiracy of the seven majorities. Congressman Medellin will definitely be happy."

"I'm wondering, will you become such a politician in the future?" Xu Le raised his head at this time and looked at Tai Zhiyuan seriously.

These eyes were very calm, very real and thorough. Tai Zhiyuan's expression became cautious, and after a while, he said seriously: "The necessary means or compromise are all necessary, but I have my bottom line."

"I also have my bottom line, but I am a little person, you are a big person. After the bottom line of a little person is penetrated, you can only be angry but not do anything." Xu Le lowered his head and said, "I know you always remember that you owe me a life... If possible, I hope you will do your best to not let that member of parliament be successfully elected, so that we will be cleared."

Tai Zhiyuan looked at Xu Le quietly, the only friend in his life, the young man who stood in front of him without hesitation in the moment of danger and saved his life, said after a while: "Our partner is Parbur Parbur. I believe Shi Qinghai has told you. Since that's the case, no matter whether you ask or not, I will try not to let the other party succeed."

Xu Le raised his head, looked at him, and said, "Thank you."

"What are your plans in the future?" Tai Zhiyuan suddenly asked, "Continue to go back to Lihua University to study?"

"No, although I haven't thought about it yet, I don't want to go back to the pear blossoms." Xu Le put his feet into the slightly hot white sand, and said after a moment of silence: "I met you in college, Shi Qinghai, and Zhang Xiaomeng, but now you are leaving, Shi Qinghai has gone, Xiaomeng has gone the most thoroughly... I think I should leave too."

There was no surprise on Tai Zhiyuan's face. Xu Le's choice had been under his calculations. He looked at Xu Le and said, "If you don't mind, I can arrange it for you."

The Tai family, the most low-key but unfathomable among the seven major families in the Federation, will arrange their future for one person, and that future will surely be extremely bright and brilliant. If anyone else is, they may not refuse. However, Xu Le didn't even think about it and replied with a smile: "Thank you, no need."

This answer was also expected by Tai Zhiyuan. What he was even more curious about was what reason Xu Le would use to reject him.

"I saw a supervisor of Black Hawk Security Company in that base. According to Shi Qinghai's analysis, he should be the one that your Tai family has taken a long time ago." Xu Le looked at Tai Zhiyuan's eyes and said, "You are destined to be a person who will do great things in the future, so you have begun to cultivate many capable assistants now. If I accept your help, I will definitely become your subordinate in the future."

Tai Zhiyuan looked at him with a frown slightly and said, "If a person lives in this world, he must have his own goals and find the meaning of his existence. To achieve those goals, he must obtain more resources and be able to enter a certain class faster. It is undoubtedly a better choice for you."

"The problem is, I don't know where my life goals are." Xu Le smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "And what I don't like the most is that from time to time it will reveal an attitude that can determine other people's lives."

Tai Zhiyuan touched his nose, his face looked a little bad, not only because of what Xu Le said at this time, but also because he found that Xu Le's attitude of rejecting him was very firm.

"Don't refute me, that's a kind of pride from the bones." Xu Le lay down on the beach chair, squinted his eyes and looked at the waves, and said, "I am a very silent person, but in fact I am a very proud person at the bones. I can talk to you like this now because I am your friend. If I am destined to be your subordinate in the future, it is impossible for such a conversation."

"If I follow your footsteps, maybe I can become a superior person in this society very quickly, but you should know that my life since childhood was not very pleasant. I don't have much favorable feelings for the class you mentioned, or even for this federation."

"Just say these words in front of me." Tai Zhiyuan said after a long time of silence: "I must remind you not to be affected by the deaths of Shi Qinghai and Zhang Xiaomeng and become that kind of fanatic."

"I will only become more talkative in front of you." Xu Le said: "As for the anti-government forces... I think you were wrong? I am just an ordinary young man, but I have good luck or bad luck. I just met you."

"Sometimes I also wonder whether it is good luck or bad luck to know you." Tai Zhiyuan said with a smile: "If it weren't for you, the officers from the Second Military Region, I wouldn't have known that I would have appeared in the gymnasium, but if you really didn't have you, maybe I'd been dead several times."

Tai Zhiyuan raised his hand and stopped Xu Le from speaking, saying, "But you are not an ordinary person, but you have never been willing to admit it yourself, or you do not have this kind of self-awareness."

Xu Le narrowed his eyes and looked at the sunset gradually falling to the sea level. After hearing this, his heart suddenly trembled. He knew that Tai Zhiyuan could not know the secret in his body, but he still thought of the structural diagrams in his mind, the fake chip behind his neck, and the back was a little stiff.

"Xue Naiyin, the director of Black Hawk Security Company..." Tai Zhiyuan looked back at the woods behind the beach. The woods were as bright as burning under the twilight. "I have always been obsessed with you. Although there is no video of the battle in the underground parking lot, this former military special forces insisted that your past must be very difficult."

"There is that national girl idol. If you are really an ordinary guy, how could she have seen you twice?" Tai Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Earlier, think about how we met, you can definitely guess at this time that the access authority in H1 area is very high, but you can get in..."

"There is something I haven't asked you." Tai Zhiyuan looked at Xu Le with a solemn expression. After being rejected, he felt a little better. He asked cautiously: "How did you know Professor Jin?"

"Professor Jin?" Xu Le was confused.

However, Tai Zhiyuan thought he was pretending to be confused, and forced a smile with some displeasure. He did not ask questions, but instead said: "Everyone has his own secret. Since you refuse to say it, I will not ask again, and I will help you hide this secret."

"I really don't know Professor Jin."

"This kid is still pretending."

Tai Zhiyuan was a little depressed and looked at him unhappy. Not long ago, the laboratory of the first hospital sent back a second report and pointed out again in that report that if it were not for the error in the experimental data, the nerve bundle reaction speed of the man who controlled the mecha would be much different from that of ordinary people.

Zhou Yu, ace student in the first academy who once fought Xu Le in an indoor battle against mechas, was the target of Tai's family's focus and focus. During the first contact between the other party and the Tai family's affiliated companies, he was also asked this question. Zhou Yu gave the pilot a very high evaluation of the black prototype mecha. This outstanding student from the Department of the First Military Academy pointed out without hesitation that the pilot who was hilarious should not have been in contact with mecha control training for a long time, but his potential is extremely huge, and he can even be called a real genius.

Tai Zhiyuan, who had countless late-night snacks in H1, naturally knew better than anyone when Xu Le started to contact the mecha, and also knew how amazing the other party's progress was, so he had no doubt about these information feedback.

If he was just a mecha genius, maybe Tai Zhiyuan would not have attached such importance to Xu Le. He had a good relationship with Xu Le, but it was a personal relationship. Once it was involved in official business, the heir of the Tai family would return to absolute calmness. He just felt that Xu Le still had many abilities and many secrets that had not been unearthed. Professor Jin disappeared for so many years, but threw such a person back to Lihua University. If he said that this person had no abilities, no one would believe it.

"I don't want to force you." Tai Zhiyuan looked at Xu Le and said, "If I tell my mother the news that you are Professor Jin's student... I think no matter how much you hate the so-called class I belong to, there is no way to leave, because she will definitely fly over immediately."

Xu Le was stunned. He didn't know why this matter was related to Tai Zhiyuan's mother, the wife who really controlled the Tai family, attached so much importance to Professor Jin... But he really didn't know who Professor Jin was, so he had to smile silently. He knew that Tai Zhiyuan would never talk nonsense, so Professor Jin must exist and what is the relationship with him. His brain began to run quickly, thinking constantly...

Silent smiled and said nothing, but in Tai Zhiyuan's eyes, it became Xu Le's default and his attitude of giving in. He shook his head and sighed: "This world has never been unfair, why should you be so stubborn?"

Xu Le was still thinking about Professor Jin, H1 area, chip access permissions, and the past scenes in his mind gradually connected together, making him guess a possibility, and his face became solemn. After being awakened by Tai Zhiyuan's words, he was silent for a moment, and then said: "You still don't believe me. I just don't want to be your subordinate, because my friends... there are very few now."

"What am I going to do next? I will enter a larger motor company, hoping to get into the R&D department and do the job I like." Xu Le looked at the sea level with a flat face, and looked at the sun gradually sinking with the bright red luster that reflected a straight line, and said: "Of course, it would be even better if Guoke Mobile Company could recruit me, a student without a diploma."

This is the ideal that Xu Le had in the Donglin District. However, at this moment, Xu Le thought of more of the promises he had to Zhang Xiaomeng to join a large company, earn a good salary, buy a house, and then... and then quietly watch the presidential election to see if there are any such things as legal justice and morality in this world.

"That's it?" Tai Zhiyuan, who was listening quietly, suddenly laughed out loud, shook his head and said, "I originally wanted to help you do something, but now it seems that I can't do anything."

Xu Le also laughed and said, "If you, the eldest young master, don't want to owe everyone a favor, then give me the black car. That day, in the underground parking lot, but I think the car is so strong that I'm really curious about the structure inside."

"This is no problem." Tai Zhiyuan said.

"What is your ideal? Your family background is so good, it seems that someone has prepared everything for you... Could it be that you really want to be president in the future?" Xu Le turned his head and looked at Tai Zhiyuan's slightly thin cheeks curiously.

A faint sadness emerged between Tai Zhiyuan's eyebrows and said, "Everyone has an ideal. My ideal when I was young was..."

Time gradually passed, the sun gradually subsided, and the sky on the sea surface was extremely dark blue and black, like a large piece of dark green jade. Just as two young people with completely different identities and statuses, the endless stars began to shine in the night sky.

"Everyone is in a different position, and the specific ideals are also different. If I want to completely solve the anti-government army in Qinglongshan, no matter what method I use, it is necessary to make these traitors unable to delay the progress of the federal progress."

When Ideal entered this category with a beautiful girlfriend and a playmate who could play with mud together, Tai Zhiyuan's expression became serious. If it were another thin young man under twenty years old, he would only make the audience laugh and hilarious and fall on the beach. But Xu Le listened seriously and silently, because he knew that the young man next to him might really be able to do these things in the future.

"The threat of the empire must be cleared. Social contradictions within the federal government must be alleviated, and we must obtain an opportunity for peaceful development... and these are not my ideals, these steps are just a prerequisite for me to realize my ideals."

Tai Zhiyuan looked up at the sky, looked at the stars in the sky, and suddenly a look of extreme yearning flashed on his face, and said slowly: "Where should the Federation go in the future? Today, when certain specific energy is gradually scarce, the entire Federation seems to have been dead for many years... Why are our ideals and our eyes always stuck on things like power and wealth?"

"That's because the vast majority of people have no power and wealth."

Xu Le didn't say this because he could see that what Tai Zhiyuan said at this time was extremely sincere. He followed Tai Zhiyuan's gaze and looked into the sky. At this time, there was no trace of light around the beach except for the occasional brightness in the sea, and the star curtain above his head became more and more clear.

"The future of the Federation should be in the starry sky." Tai Zhiyuan looked at the starry curtain in a daze, and after a long time, he said in an extremely serious tone.

In the library of Hexi State University, Xu Le has also read many books on cosmic astronomy. He squinted his eyes and looked at the sky, and couldn't help but whisper: "The Federation has now discovered seventy-four planetary systems, and it is said that there are sixteen planetary systems on the other side of the empire... The adjacent space has been explored, and walking into the silver core is not supported by current aerospace technology. In the environment of gravitational field, human bodies always seem too fragile."

"Will we go outside if we don't walk into the silver core? The universe outside is still very big. If the war between the Federation and the Empire is caused by resources, but in such a big world, why do we have to fight to the death for a fly in the corner?" Tai Zhiyuan's lips showed a hint of mockery, "There are also these politicians, families, and merchants in the Federation... Even if their desires are a bottomless pit, the universe is so big that it can satisfy their ambitions."

"This is a beautiful idea, and naturally it is also a very whimsical idea." Xu Le said after a moment of silence: "To reach other galaxies, you have to pass through the dark sky. With your current endurance, you can actually do it long ago. The problem is that without the star map and self-generating space gate marks, none of the exploration spacecraft in the early stages of the Constitutional Calendar can come back."

Above the beach, in the night sky, there is a very strange area between countless stars. There is no star. That area is the periphery of the Milky Way where the Federation is located. If humans want to transcend the Milky Way and enter real outer space, that road is the best choice, because no matter from any other direction, they will encounter obstacles from countless stars... However, it is precisely because that area has no sign and I don’t know how many spaceships the Federation has devoured over tens of thousands of years, so it is called the Dark Sky.

Tai Zhiyuan looked at the darkness among the stars above his head and said with great regret: "It is said that before... someone actually left this galaxy. There was a star map in this world that arrived at the outside world, but unfortunately no one has found it. However... since a predecessor could do it, why can't we do it?"

"That must be a legend." Xu Le shook his head, "The ideal of using legend as a foundation is not much better than me."

Having said that, he still felt a little respect for Tai Zhiyuan. Looking at the stars in the sky, he subconsciously gently stroked the bracelet on his wrist and thought of the words engraved on the bracelet.

"But it is an ideal after all. I don't want to sprinkle some salt on the ideal like most people in the Federation, and air-dry it, and drink it when you get old..." Tai Zhiyuan said.

Xu Le smiled and said, "The cured meat is indeed not as delicious as the sponge meat."

"You're saying it's a joke again." Tai Zhiyuan lowered his head, looked at him with a smile, and said, "There are few people in the Federation who know what this old proverb means. In an era when only synthetic meat can be eaten, no one can marinate it with salt, and no one can make fumigated meat... unless he often eats wild meat."

"How could a guy who can eat wild meat often be an ordinary guy?"
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