desire reconciliation

Chapter 83

"What do you think of this planet?"

"How about what?"

Uriah looked at the green plants on the side of the road, and replied casually: "Look for a planet early and elope. It's very troublesome to transfer the ownership of the planet."

The two walked under this Gothic-style building. Lancelot glanced at him and said lightly: "Officials in the military are not allowed to hold assets that exceed fifty times their annual salary. Marshal, do you know that? ?”

Uriah touched his chin: "I know, I know."

Lancelot: "Aren't you afraid of my reporting?"

"I can change the military regulations and buy it again." Uriah smiled, "And do you still remember the 500 million you bought? There is also a [-] million transferred to you." The implication is that the two are accomplices, Grasshopper tied to a rope.

"Oh yes, I will pay you back that one hundred million now."

Uriah: "Now?"

Lancelot took out the terminal: "It's fine later, as long as you're not in a hurry."

"Don't worry, I don't want that money."

Lancelot frowned for a moment.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Uriah asked, "Moved?"

Lancelot said seriously: "Sooner or later, you will inflate an empire like yours."

Uriah froze in place: "No, do you have any other feelings?"

Lancelot: "Why don't you ask me why I want so much money?"

Uriah: "Why?"

Lancelot: "What?"

Uriah: "Why should I ask you?"

Lancelot was stopped by the question: "The average person who has been borrowed so much money should at least ask a little bit."

Uriah: "Then do you think I look like a normal person?"

Lancelot: "It's not like that."

Uriah: "That's fine."

Lancelot: "..."

Uriah: "Do you want me to know?"

Lancelot: "I'll tell you if you want."

Uriah: "Me too."

Lancelot was silent for a moment, thinking about the meaning of Uriah's words, perhaps to confirm his own thoughts, he asked, "What's the same?"

Uriah: "You believe me and are willing to tell me. I believe you are willing to borrow money. Isn't that even fair?"

Lancelot suddenly smiled: "Uriah, you are really a strange person."

Uriah: "If not

Is it strange to be able to attract such a good-looking prince? "

Lancelot was almost immune to this man's flattery: "But I still have to tell you."

Uriah: "Huh?"

Lancelot told all the ins and outs like pouring beans: "Originally, I planned to buy the Northern Crown from my father for the [-] million yuan, but I don't know who secretly gave my father the money to continue the experiment. Bei Mian was also won by me, so the money will be returned to the original owner, and I will return it to you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the moment he turned his head, a black shadow fell on him, and the touch on his lips changed accordingly.

Lancelot took a few steps back, still blushing: "Isn't it just now... Are you going to be in heat?"

"Maybe."

"What did I say wrong to provoke you?"

Uriah seemed unable to stop, and pressed his forehead against Lancelot's left shoulder: "Anything."

"Stop being coquettish, the sun will go down soon."

Uriah didn't intend to get up, "I can't leave."

Lancelot: "What's the matter?"

Uriah rubbed against him again: "What do you think?"

Lancelot: "..."

A voice echoed in Uriah's heart.

"Didn't you ask me why I didn't ask you?"

"Let me tell you, I'm just pretending."

"I'd love to know everything about you."

"But love is never indulgence, I need to give you your own space."

Her lover was willing to show herself to herself without reservation, and now Uriah wanted to pick him up and find a place to mark him permanently.

This is the truest feeling of Uriah.

"Uriah...Uriah? Are you asleep?"

In a daze, Uriah didn't hear Lancelot calling him.

He restrained his thoughts: "No."

"Then rest and go."

Uriah raised his head, and several red marks were pressed on his forehead.

He raised his hand and touched it, as if to cover up his embarrassment: "Would you like to bet that you won't be able to pay back the 500 million a year after you became the emperor of the empire."

Lancelot wondered whether he looked down on him or the royal family, and subconsciously accepted the bet: "What are you betting on?"

Uriah thought for a while, raised the corners of his mouth, and said to himself, "Bet on the two of us in the dormitory."

The wall in the middle. "

The two followed the butler robot to the door of the senior researcher's room. After knocking on the door, someone inside answered twice, and then the door was opened.

It was a middle-aged man wearing glasses and a sweater vest. It was the researcher in the image they had accidentally obtained on that barren planet.

"Who are you?" The middle-aged man put one hand on the doorknob and raised his head to ask.

"Hello, Dr. Gao Sitai, we are from the Zombie Research Section of the Imperial Research Institute, and we are here to ask you some questions." Uriah stepped forward and put on his trademark polite smile, saying familiarly that he had just discussed good words.

The doctor was dubious, and closed the door with a bang, leaving only the two people outside the door looking at each other.

"You are unreliable," Lancelot said.

Before Uriah could reply, the door in front of him suddenly opened again.

"Please come in." The doctor invited the two into the room.

Uriah walked in behind the doctor, not forgetting to tease: "It's still reliable."

Lancelot said nothing, and raised his heels.

The furnishings in the house are very neat, as soon as you enter the door, you can see two bookshelves with various books on Zerg research.

In the middle of the room is a solid wood desk, which is larger than ordinary models. The books on it are all opened, covering almost the entire desk, but they are also scattered and do not feel messy.

Dr. Goldstein took out two chairs from a corner and wiped off the dust on them. It seemed that no one had visited for a long time.

After putting the chair away, he didn't intend to entertain any more, so he sat back at the table by himself and changed a pair of glasses: "Tell me, what's the problem?"

Lancelot and Uriah glanced at each other and sat down.

Uriah said straight to the point: "As far as we know, doctor, you were still participating in the experiment on the planet GW-741 half a year ago, and we have seen the video you left behind."

After hearing what Uriah said, Goldstein first showed surprise on his originally calm face, and then frowned deeply.

"What do you want to know?" asked the doctor.

Uriah: "You said in the video that you wanted people who saw the video to stop that experiment. Now that experiment has been terminated, but the results are irreversible. more stable, but with time

The passage is getting worse day by day. According to this speed, the tragedy of the next Zerg War will be repeated within half a month. We would like to ask you if there is a way to alleviate the changes in the Zerg Abyss. "

Uriah's tone was very sincere, but when he finished speaking, the response he got was a cold snort.

Dr. Goldstein flipped through a few pages of notes in his hand: "I've said it all, it's too late now, and it's the same when you come here a few times."

Lancelot felt strange: "Doctor, you seem to have made a mistake. We are here for the first time."

Gao Sitai stopped turning the pages of the book in mid-air, raised his head and moved his glasses down, and looked at the two people in front of him for a moment.

Then he pointed to Uriah and said, "Isn't this the Marshal of the Empire? Isn't that the prince who got together with the Marshal of the Empire recently? You two are pretending to be people from the Imperial Research Institute, and you want to fool me?"

The smile on Uriah's face was still very formulaic, as if he had rehearsed the response plan long ago: "The doctor has a good eye, we lied about our identity just to get a solution to the abnormality of the wormhole as soon as possible, and I hope you will forgive me. "

"Hey, Marshal, you don't have to be so polite. I'm just a researcher, so I don't deserve your forgiveness."

Dr. Goldstein's words are a bit weird, just like what Uriah and Lancelot said in the previous confession, it seems that these scientific researchers don't like people with high positions, which is why they are a marshal , A prince wants to put down his airs and pretend to be a researcher to collect information.

Fortunately, Dr. Gao Sitai only made a joke, and didn't really mean to delve into it: "You said that you are not in the same group as those people before?"

Lancelot asked: "Do you know who those people worked for before?"

Goldstein: "Duke Graeme, who else can there be?"

Lancelot: "My uncle?"

Lancelot and Uriah looked at each other and asked, "What does my uncle have to do with this experiment?"

Goldstein: "He is the general manager of this experiment."

Lancelot felt that there might be some deviation in their grasp of the whole incident. If his uncle Graham was taken into account, this matter might be far more complicated than imagined.

Seeing that Lancelot hadn't spoken for a long time, Goldstein closed the book in his hand and said, "There are ways, but Graham can't do it. I'm just waiting for the Zerg to come back, and I'll take a few more look at this book at the end." beautiful

planet myself. "

Lancelot's eyes lit up, and he asked, "What method?"

Dr. Goldstein has already got up and walked to the bed. The buildings on this planet are not high, and you can see the horizon in the distance from the window.

"Need to reduce the existing Zerg population by at least a third."

Uriah frowned: "This shouldn't be difficult to achieve?"

Goldstein continued: "I haven't finished yet. The one-third of the Zerg reduction must include all mutant Zerg, including unborn eggs."

"Insect eggs?"

Goldstein nodded: "You said that you are not in the same group as Graeme before, so let me think so for the time being. They came to me again and again to ask me for a solution, but with this one solution, it was almost completed. There is no other way."

Lancelot took the words with a serious expression on his face: "Nine times out of ten, the expedition team that entered the hinterland of the Zombie Abyss was wiped out. Even the expedition team of the Empire did not dare to go too deep. The record of going deep into the hinterland of the wormhole can only reach [-] meters. A researcher once sacrificed three medium-sized aircraft carriers to bring back a few eggs as research samples. To eliminate all the eggs must go deep into the hinterland of the wormhole , that is an almost impossible task.”

After Lancelot finished speaking, the room fell into silence.

They are all leaders in their respective fields, and the fate of the empire and even the entire interstellar world is closely related to them.

Like a giant ship that cannot change its direction, it can only watch it crash into the iceberg and die.

"Is this really the only way?" Lancelot was a little unwilling.

Goldstein: "Or can you come to one Zerg and kill another Zerg until all the Zerg are killed?"

Uriah: "Doctor, don't be joking. With the fighting power of the Zerg, even if all the mecha forces in the entire interstellar world including the Empire are mobilized, it would be a miracle to be able to kill more than half of the Zerg."

Goldstein shook his head with a smile: "That's what I said, but Duke Graham is currently planning to adopt this method. Leaving aside the mecha armed force and back supply, just judging from the reproduction speed of the mutant Zerg, this Plans just don't work."

Lancelot: "When did my uncle join this project?"

Dr. Goldstein recalled for a moment: "It seems that the experiment started six or seven years ago, and the Duke of Graham in about three years.

Before or so time to become the general responsible person. "

Lancelot: "Then won't he know that this method will definitely not work?"

Dr. Goldstein: "I told him that the reproductive ability and ferocity of the Zerg have been greatly improved after mutation, but they seem to have developed some new type of weapon that can fight against mechs and thermal weapons, but this is not my field of expertise. It’s not easy to make more rebuttals.”

"A new weapon??" Lancelot looked at Uriah, who shook his head, meaning he didn't know about it.

Dr. Goldstein: "I don't know if there are any new weapons. I just saw that you came to the door again. I thought it was the new weapons they boasted that they didn't make it, so they came to me again. But if they really develop What kind of new weapon can wipe out all the Zerg, it can really solve the urgent need."

When Lancelot heard this, his hanging heart slightly relaxed, but when he turned to look at Uriah, his expression was still very serious.

I only heard Uriah say: "It can only solve the urgent need, so doctor, you mean that this will not solve the fundamental problem."

Dr. Goldstein smiled: "There are still smart people here. Do you know why the Zerg War was fought five years ago?"

Lancelot answered: "Because of the influence of interstellar long waves, the Zergs entered the breeding season ahead of schedule, and the original resources were not enough to support the survival of the Zergs. The queen led the general Zergs to make a large-scale leap to invade the surrounding planets to seize resources."

After hearing his retelling, Dr. Gao Sitai affirmed: "His Royal Highness's knowledge reserve is not bad. I thought the royal family were idle heirs. It seems that there is still hope for the future of the empire."

Uriah responded from the side: "It's not bad. He has been in the military academy for three years, and his name has been hung in the first place for three years. Now there are still photos of him among the outstanding graduates of the military academy."

"Yo, you're still so powerful, I really didn't see it, I just came in and looked at this look, I really didn't think it was academic stuff."

The high-ranking officials and aristocrats they usually come into contact with are either flattering or veiled in their words. Academics like Dr. Gao Sitai speak straightforwardly, but they are not used to it.

"It's not just about academics, doctor, do you know that he ranks in the top ten in mechs and melee combat skills in the military department, and the alphas on the list are all..."

Seeing that he still wanted to continue, Lancelot reached out and tugged at his sleeve.

high

Seeing their actions, Stein suddenly started laughing: "You are so embarrassed about what others say, I didn't expect the Marshal to be so funny in private, hahaha."

Uriah was finally able to brag about Lancelot with others, but the person concerned himself was not too happy, so he had to give up: "Hey, it's good to be very powerful anyway."

Lancelot brought the topic back on track: "Doctor, do you want us to say that the reason for the Zerg War five years ago was to compare the changes in the Zerg Abyss this time?"

"That's right. The Zerg war five years ago was due to a shortage of resources. This time it was also due to a shortage of resources, but the cause and effect were reversed. Five years ago, the Zerg war was caused by a shortage of resources due to the excessive number of Zergs. This time It was the genetic mutation caused by the shortage of resources, which indirectly led to the increase in the number of Zerg. Now that the experiment of the immortality plan has been terminated, and the energy stones needed for the Zerg's reproduction have also stabilized again, it stands to reason that the Zerg Abyss should stop, but this It has been monitored for a while that the Zerg Abyss is still moving. The root cause is that the number of mutant Zergs has increased sharply, which is equivalent to the formation of a new group. Generally, Zergs and mutant Zergs are fighting in the nest, and the involution is serious. In the end, they can only move outwards. Expansion, that is, with this continuous movement of the worm abyss."

Uriah continued: "So if you want everything to return to the past, you need to restore the number of Zerg to the past and eliminate the mutation."

Goldstein: "In theory, this is true, but the gap between theory and reality is too great. This is just a beautiful fantasy."

"Why must it be Zerg?" Lancelot asked.

He continued what he said just now: "I mean, if it is possible to go deep into the Zerg and only destroy the eggs of the mutated Zerg while keeping the normal Zerg, the workload and difficulty of operation are too high. Is it possible that we can directly kill the Zerg? Directly blasted all the eggs and queens."

If an experienced Zerg researcher or an outstanding graduate of the Empire who has received higher education hears what Lancelot said, he will laugh at his ignorance, and may also joke that "the future of the empire is uncertain." It's really dark."

After Lancelot finished speaking, everyone present had solemn expressions, because they knew that this was not a joke, nor was it a manifestation of ignorance. He spoke out with the honor and disgrace of the empire and the future of mankind of this passage.

They could even see the glimmer in his eyes, if

There really is this chance, even if it is bound to be a battle of no return, Lancelot is ready to go at any time.

"I have thought about the feasibility and probability of success of this method. Before the Zergs come out on a large scale, they will directly blow up the insect source and the queen inside. But this will inevitably cause the Zerg outside the insect source to appear because they cannot accept the queen. In the situation where the attack power is greatly increased due to the fluctuations emitted, there are not a small number of Zerg that have crawled out of the Zerg Abyss. This part of the collective runaway, even if the imperial army has extraordinary combat effectiveness, this is not small for them. challenge."

As Gao Sitai said, his fingertips slid across a row of books that were not neatly arranged on the bookshelf, and his index finger rested on a dark green book cover with gilt lace. The action has been repeated tens of thousands of times: "Have you ever understood the ecological niche of the Zerg?"

As the doctor spoke, his hands didn't stop, and soon his fingers stopped on one of the pages.

"In fact, far earlier than the study of Zerg genes, interstellar scholars have already had a deep understanding of the ecological niche of Zerg in the entire interstellar. At that time, the academic research of the entire interstellar centered on the study of Zerg. The derived elementary subjects have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.”

Both Uriah and Lancelot listened carefully to what he said.

Gao Sitai seemed to be a highly respected teacher, and continued to explain for them: "Zerg ecology is one of the branches that has attracted much attention. All countries are vying to invest in scientific research funds, and countless top scientific researchers have devoted themselves to the field of Zerg research. It seems that human beings have defeated the Zerg and become a veritable interstellar overlord. Unfortunately, the prosperity of this subject is just a temporary bubble, and the difficulty of manipulating the experimental objects has led to the limitations of the research. This subject that used to be as dazzling as the scorching sun soon It reached the ceiling, and almost everyone thought it was the rising sun, but they never thought it was just the last ray of the setting sun, and together with the entire Zerg discipline, the research on Zerg ecology also went into solitude."

Dr. Goldstein turned the book over to the two of them and spread it on the table: "As early as the eve of the first Zerg war, the Empire and the entire StarCraft had considered annihilating the Zerg in one fell swoop to avoid future troubles when making strategic planning. "

"Since the Zerg still exists today, then this plan was not implemented or failed?" Lancelot asked.

Dr. Goldstein nodded: "This plan once

The proposal was opposed by a group of ecologists. "

Lancelot followed the doctor's words: "Because the elimination of the Zerg will destroy the interstellar ecology."

"This is one point, but the bigger problem is yet to come, because ecologists speculate that there is another kind of creature in the interstellar field farther than the worm source, which checks and balances with the worm abyss, but it is not so much a It is a kind of creature, rather it is a mysterious force. Some researchers have captured its subtle electromagnetic fluctuations, but so far there is not enough evidence to prove that it is a specific creature, or even a stable substance .”

Uriah also seemed to be lost in memory: "I seem to have heard of this incident."

Dr. Gao Sitai: "Since the Zerg ecology has been desolate, this research has not progressed for more than ten years, and the machines developed and manufactured by the Empire many years ago have not been in operation for many years. The Marshal still knows what happened so long ago. ?”

Uriah replied: "It has nothing to do with the position of marshal. It was told to me by my parents when I was young. At that time, I chased my father and asked him to tell the story of the mech. He had talked about it. Probably at that time Someone in the research institute has captured biological electromagnetic waves other than the Zerg. They speculate that there are creatures with a higher ecological niche than the Zerg, but even humans can only be evenly divided with the Zerg. , then if the Zerg is eliminated, that unknown creature may pose a far greater threat to humans than the Zerg.”

"It's not difficult to explain why the first Zerg War did not choose to wipe out the Zerg in one fell swoop, but took the next best thing and only maintained their number at the number before the Zerg War." Dr. Gostel said to Uriah agree.

I don’t know how many times today, the room fell into silence again, Dr. Goldstein closed the book, got up and filled the gap on the bookshelf with the book.

"It's getting late, if you don't leave, it will be midnight when you return to the main star."

"Do you want to go with us?" Uriah asked.

"Me? Don't go. It's better to drink more cups of tea when you have that time. Such a leisurely life will be lost every day."

Lancelot remembered that in the image they saw in the research institute on the planet GW-741, Dr. Goldstein had so earnestly wanted to stop the experiment and prayed devoutly for the future of mankind.

Now he can't see a trace of life in Goldstein's eyes, even if he seems to be still with them.

Just kidding, there are only ashes in those eyes and no light can be seen.

"Doctor, have you given up?"

Gao Sitai smiled lightly: "This is not giving up, but a compromise."

I don't know if Lancelot understood what he meant, but Lancelot bowed slightly and saluted: "We respect your choice, if possible, please help us in the future battle against the Zerg .”

Dr. Goldstein looked up and met Lancelot's eyes, which were clear and bright, full of hope. Goldstein thought that if he could see himself in a mirror now, he would definitely feel that he and Lancelot are a pair of antonyms. .

Lancelot's eyes are too similar.

Without him, like the former self, the innocent self who never gave up.

Even though he knew that this was a battle he would lose, when the blond young man who had only met for a few hours turned around and left, he blurted out: "If you need anything, you can contact me at any time, I am willing to serve the empire until the last moment. "

The blond young man stopped when he heard the words, turned around and bowed deeply to him again. This bow was standard and beautiful, without any pretensions of a royal prince.

"The Empire will fight to the last."