"I'll take you back!" Lancer helped Xuanji stand up.
Her knees were probably hurt from a fall, and she was a little wobbly when walking. He helped her walk slowly, "So what if he doesn't love you? Someone loves you."
He has walked with her for such a long way, for such a long time, in childhood, adolescence, youth... She can't just forget it.
In this small apartment, there are many memories of Kalki. He often walks around, just like the male owner of this room, but in more than a month, he has never had any affection for her.
The act of partnership in the same room, just looking at her tenderly...
She had never let Lancer come in casually, but now they were lying on her bed together, naked.
"You..." Lancer's voice was very gentle, but she turned her face away.
Everyone was at a loss. He was so surprised and happy that he got out of bed to get tissues, forgetting that she had a "little servant" robot.
Kalki was not with her... They had lived together for so long, and they still loved each other. Lancer couldn't understand the Platonic knights, who actually had to remain chaste until they were thirty.
"I don't need it!" She rejected his kindness, but curled up like a small animal and hid on the side of the wall.
Kalki...
She gritted her teeth and did not cry, but when she thought of him, her tears rolled down.
"I love you." Lancer hugged her tightly from behind and whispered in her ear.
She didn't care about it, all she could think about was another person.
She still remembers that when Kalki, who had just arrived, first saw her wearing a pink knight's robe, he praised her in Japanese for being cute. Only the leader of the group is cute... He had short blond hair, smiled like her brother, and taught her martial arts.
, always protecting her.
The General Plato standing in the rain of roses is another person. Although the uniform is so gorgeous and noble, he is still so handsome and tall, with a golden bun, a brass beard, and ice-blue eyes.
Showing a cold and arrogant look.
The separation of time separated them forever.
Xuanji’s leader disappeared, lost in the cracks of time and space, and turned into a strange man——
Another woman’s husband.
It is destined that they will owe each other and hurt each other.
Human civilization has developed in a roundabout way between countless times of construction and rebuilding. Thousands of years ago, economists, historians, politicians, sociologists, anthropologists... so many outstanding people of insight.
, who could have imagined that the final result of this development path would be a huge city.
All civilizations have been abandoned, and only urban civilization remains on Gaia.
Mangxing City has become a city of consumption that has imprisoned nearly 30 billion slaves. Individuals are forced to live, grow old, sick and die in it, work, borrow and repay, and continue to consume, consume, consume, using this method to push society forward, forward, forward. p>
Gaia's idealists and utopians have also established rural communities similar to those on the old Earth, but they were all defeated by the natural climate of the Gaia planet.
Gaia is not the Earth, and its land conditions are very different from those of the old civilization. Not only does Gaia not have fertile land, it is also accompanied by a lot of extreme climates. Sometimes there are heavy rains, sometimes there is drought, and sometimes there are strong winds.
Hail fell to the ground, and the temperature difference between day and night was so large that it was impossible to develop a mature agricultural civilization in a natural state.
This is a civilization with only one city, an extremely prosperous city, the pinnacle of urban civilization, where tens of billions of civilians live, grow old, sick and die.
What's it like outside the city?
Like all periods of humankind, the top aristocracy will not live with the common people.
Gaia's top carnivores live outside of Star City.
These places are very beautiful and pleasant, a perfect combination of high technology and original ecology.
Gaians often give such places a particularly poetic name, such as "Palm Springs". As the name suggests, this place has gurgling spring water, full of Mediterranean style, and a blue seascape on one side of the coast.
Many Plato rebel generals and their descendants like to buy property here because it reminds them of their hometown on Plato, where Admiral Heinz Schwarz's huge palace-style mansion is located.
Or "Vanilla Mountain", which is an area of hills and lakes with a pleasant climate. The scenery of lakes and mountains is very relaxing. Former Lieutenant General Thomas Ball had an extremely beautiful and pleasant mountain villa here, which is as beautiful as stairs.
Later, he was promoted to admiral. In order to marry a bride, he bought a beautiful island on the "Jewel Beach" where the islands are scattered, and spent a lot of money to build a smart mansion with a huge helipad.
As the name suggests, "Gem Beach" could once be used to pick up gems like Opal. Of course, it has been mined long ago, but because of the exceptionally beautiful scenery, it is like a fairyland and has become a gathering place for the rich.
There is another place on the Titan continent where Gaia's top carnivores live, which is "Shangri-La".
This place is located on the northwest side of the Titan continent, with majestic snow-capped mountains on one side and spring-like valleys on the other, with gurgling rivers, blue lakes, and countless straits spreading to the north, which is extremely beautiful.
Because the middle and lower classes of society have been driven into the tall buildings of Mangxing City, wealthy families can occupy an extremely large area like a horse race, just like the principalities and counties under the ancient feudal system, although Gaia's constitution explicitly prohibits it.
Those who have been granted nobility and titles, but these Gaia’s actual aristocrats are like princes in their own territory.
Today, Gaia's "Arms King" Guillaume de Longueville is evil because Kalki, the head of Plato's mission, his entourage and Plato's senior officials will visit his 5 million hectares of "Shangri-La"
The mansion made him ecstatic.
Guillaume de Longueville is a typical embodiment of Gaia society. At first glance, he thought he was a French nobleman. He often vividly describes how his ancestors accompanied Guillaume, Duke of Normandy, when he landed in England in 1066.
I saw the Duke jumping off the landing ship, unable to stand still, and fell flat on the mud on the beach.
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However, he told this story in American with an old southern accent, without any British accent. This interesting contrast is also reflected in his beliefs. His official registered belief is Catholicism, but he is actually a Freemason.
[1]. This mix and match style is also reflected in his curse words. With a cigar in hand, "sonofbitch" and "bastard" fly together with the standard Shanghainese "牓三" and "red guy".
This middle-aged man with dark olive skin, short stature, and quite an imposing manner, his company "Longueville Military Industrial Company" accounts for 40% of the arms orders of the Gaia War Department, and has 1.87 billion employees, covering
The industry includes various weapons, various types of warships, fighter planes, and space base construction; it even involves the urban construction, chemical industry, and environmental protection industries of Mangxing City. It can be said to be the top chaebol on Gaia, so friends of Freemasonry
He was nicknamed "Count Guillaume" (te Guillaume) in French. Not only did he not think it was ironic, he also enjoyed it.
For him, the more war-torn an era is, the more gold there is. His father, Charles de Longueville, once said to him: "Moresuffering, more money", which of course does not mean that he wants more money.
Instead of suffering, the more humans suffer, the more money they will make.
Regardless of social status or lifestyle, Guillaume de Longueville is a well-known Gaian nobleman. His astonishing wealth came from hundreds of years of family management, rather than acquired overnight, which is commonly known as
"Old money".
However, "old money" also comes from "new money". The source of this huge wealth comes from the old earth.
Longueville's ancestors were actually what Count Guillaume called "the bad guys", and the rise of his family was the history of war in the 20th century. One of his rather courageous ancestors couldn't survive in the United States and went to the magic city of the 1930s.
"Adventurer's Paradise" tried his luck and actually hooked up with the daughter of a high-ranking official as a bodyguard.
In the late autumn, there was a cool breeze on the Huangpu River. A slim young lady put on a fur coat, with a shiny diamond brooch pinned to the dark purple fur. Her nervous and pale hands held the collar of the coat tightly.
Wearing a ring of kerosene diamonds and imperial green jade, she stood on the small sampan and looked at a mail ship that was about to leave for the New World.
This small sampan was loaded with more than a dozen sandalwood boxes, large and small, which contained gold jewelry and antique calligraphy and paintings from her father's family. Nothing could stop a woman who was determined to elope.
When the young lover in a suit was waiting for him at the check-in counter, he finally put it down.
"Venus' gifts are sometimes more generous than Mars." This ancestor who was good at picking up girls started to get involved in the arms industry with the first pot of gold stolen from his father-in-law's house and the east wind that broke out in World War II.
, earned a lot of money, and became one of the richest people in the United States.
Later generations adhered to this family motto and married the daughter of a Jewish financial tycoon on Wall Street, which made them even more powerful. What followed was the process of using arms production to help the US military conquer the world...
Their family history taught the men of the Longueville family one very important thing, which is that "the East is the source of human wealth." They would unconsciously marry the daughters of wealthy Easterners to greatly increase their wealth, such as those of wealthy Nanyang merchants.
The girl was given a dowry of hundreds of diamonds the size of rock candy, dozens of South Sea pearl farms, dozens of rubber plantations, etc. By the time of "Count Guillaume", he had already bought a French aristocrat with money.
He has a surname, but does not have the appearance of a Norman nobleman.
In terms of appearance, Guillaume was not ugly when he was young. He had healthy dark olive skin, curly black hair and dark eyes. He was strong and stocky, with neat teeth. He was quite charming when he smiled.
But he inherited the stubby bow legs of the Jews and the relatively small eyes of the Chinese. When the Masonic friends gathered at his home, they would always joke about his name and coat of arms of a Norman nobleman, and the sharp contrast with his appearance.
In Longueville's "Flower Villa" manor in Shangri-La, when chatting while smoking cigars and drinking brandy, they often said:
"Your ancestors don't look like they accompanied Guillaume the Conqueror in conquering England. I think they look more like they accompanied Babur in conquering Khandostan."
So, under the psychological shadow of being often ridiculed, Guillaume decided to violate the marriage and family traditions of his ancestors. Stimulated by whiskey and cigars, the old men of the Longueville family often uttered wonderful words and boasted: "Our family
We have always been united by love, because money is our love!"
When Guillaume was 30 years old, he married a white actress with blonde hair, blue eyes, straight legs, and a slender figure. She was not a rich heiress, but she had the feeling of a beautiful angel in his fantasy.
She also claimed that her grandmother was a Platonic white woman, with skin as white as milk and hair as golden as gold. Determined to improve the appearance of her descendants, Longueville ignored the opposition of other family members and married a beauty who used her genes as a dowry.
Guillaume did see hope when his first daughter was born. The eldest daughter was blond and white-skinned like her mother, and was named "Angela". The second daughter's skin color was darker.
, light brown hair and eyes, the second young lady was named "Antonia". When the third young lady "Anita" was born, Guillaume confirmed that his transplantation experiment had failed, and Anita was simply a replica of himself.
Dark, with even darker eyes, she is held in the hands of her snow-white mother like an Indian baby girl.
This incident only added to the laughter of friends. They held cigars and puffed out smoke and said:
"It's simply Father Mendel's pea experiment."
The birth of the third daughter even made the relationship between husband and wife worse. They began to play their own way like the couples in Gaia's upper class society. Guillaume insisted on not getting divorced because he did not want to take advantage of his wife's "foolish" lovers. But in ten years
A few years later, they made up some of their relationship, and occasionally called each other Darling when they were in a good mood. However, their relationship had been cold for a long time, and they were used to living their own lives.
After the third lady was born, she saw her parents like this, which made her have a weird and rebellious temperament. Anita believed that she was unnecessary and shameful in the world.
Not only was she black when she was born, but she also had long and short legs, which further disappointed her father who wanted excellent offspring. Although Gaia's medical technology can easily treat her, her parents talked about her genetic problems when she was young.
, roaring and screaming at each other, this scene made her unable to let it go.
Her parents had no intention of caring about her during her treatment, and were too busy playing their own things. She was left to look after nannies and servants, and she spent her childhood in depression. When she grew up, she was immediately sent to boarding school.
The father also liked the eldest daughter more and gave her the best of everything; the second daughter obediently formed an alliance with her sister and isolated the youngest. The two of them laughed at her and called her "blacksheep"[2]
, when she was wearing special boots for treatment, she was suddenly pushed down from behind.
[1] Freemasonry was actually born out of Mithraism, which was officially suppressed by the Roman Empire. It is a "brotherhood" that promotes brotherly love and later became the protagonist of conspiracy theories.
[2] Scum in Western proverbs, black sheep; the meaning of someone who disgraces the family.