Chapter 1653: Porcupine in winter (2/2)

Federal standard time is already midnight.

However, there is no unified sleep time on the hundreds of ”sub-ships” of the Firefly, or even in the various cabins. The huge Star Sea Fortress is still brightly lit, like thousands of fireflies gathered together, freely releasing the weak life. Light.

Only in the core compartment is a ”meditation platform” that is shrouded in a crystal dome and can directly overlook the sea of ​​stars. Under the bright stars in the sky, it also has the meaning of a bit of silence in the night.

Li Yao followed Cui Lingfeng, and the two slowly paced on the empty meditation stage. Under the bright starlight, there were only two of them.

”In three days, the delegation will set off.”

Li Yao looked at Cui Lingfeng's back under the starlight and asked, ”Sir, the speaker called me here. Is there anything else you want to explain?”

”Nothing, I just want to say ‘thank you’ to you, no matter who you are, no matter what your purpose is, at least you have brought...new hope for the five words ‘Xinghai Republic’.”

Cui Lingfeng looked beyond the crystal dome, like a sparkling sea of ​​stars, and suddenly said, ”In addition, if you are really a simple'red lotus man', you have fled here to avenge the immortal cultivator, and finally found others. Cultivator...I really want to know that after you have discovered the ambitions and conspiracies of Jin Xinyue, the high-level federal government, and the so-called ”orthodox government” is not as perfect as you thought, there is still the dark side of the ”rebirth plan”, etc. Will you be very disappointed?”

Li Yao was taken aback, thought for a while, and shook his head: ”It's not enough to be disappointed, but it's a pity. At the time of the enemy, everyone is obviously a cultivator, but they have to be cautious, cautious, even suspicious, and even suspicious. It's really a bit... …”

”No way, maybe this is human, this is human nature, it is difficult to completely refine things no matter how you cultivate.”

Cui Lingfeng smiled and said, ”Captain Lin, have you heard of porcupines in winter?”

Li Yao blinked: ”Porcupine in winter?”

”The porcupine is a large rodent with long, hard needles, which stand up like a hedgehog to guard against beasts that are bigger than them.”

Cui Lingfeng said, ”Whenever the winter is too cold, the porcupines will huddle together to keep warm. If they are separated too much, they will not be able to keep warm, and the cold wind will still run between them. ; But if they get too close, they will be stabbed by the spikes on each other's bodies.

”So, it evolved into this scene-the porcupines kept arching toward their companions until they were stung by their companions' spikes, and then they retreated suddenly, but shortly after retreating, they were forced by the cold wind again. Arched towards his companion, longing for a little warmth, until he was stung by his companion again.

”We and Xingyao Federation are probably these two porcupines. Under the threat of the cold wind, everyone wants to hug each other to keep warm, but they will be stung by each other's natural spikes. There is no way, this' 'Spikes' are the only weapon we used to protect ourselves from the mouth of beasts. If we didn't have these'thorns', perhaps we would not have waited for winter to come, and we would have died long ago!”

”I believe that even stupid porcupines will eventually find the right distance, not to stab each other, but also to share everyone's heat, otherwise this species would have become extinct!”

Li Yao couldn't help but said, ”What's more, people? I don't believe that the senior officials of the Star Federation are inferior to porcupines.”

”You don't understand, sometimes what I fear is not the Star Federation, but...ourself.”

Cui Lingfeng sighed and said faintly, ”After all, it is not the real human empire that gave birth to the monster'Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi', it is precisely us, Xinghai Republic!

”It was the Xinghai Republic that gave birth to such immortal cultivators like the Black Star Emperor. After creating this monster, our ancestors fled, and in the thousand years of exile in Xinghai, we experienced too much darkness and despair, countless It touched the bottom line of normal human beings.

”Yes, now I can say without embarrassment that the'bad cultivator' is different from the'immortal cultivator'.

”However, after Ding Zhengyang raised that question, I wondered more than once, is everything really determined by the environment, and has nothing to do with Dao Xin?

”My luck is good enough. During my tenure as Speaker, I didn't encounter any painful choices.

”However, if my luck with the Firefly is a little bit worse, and we encounter a serious disaster and lose a lot of resources, when only one-tenth of the people on board can survive, I dare not launch the'Rebirth Plan'? What about killing 90% of people randomly?

”If I really did this, would I be considered a ‘bad cultivator’ or a ‘immortality cultivator’?”