Chapter 2149 those roses
The strong wind was stunned, the heavy rain was stunned, the thunder was stunned, the queen was stunned, and Li Jialing was stunned, too.
"Star Sea Republic?"
The queen frowned and murmured to herself.
"Firefly?"
Li Jialing blinked quickly, unable to believe it.
"yes!"
Li Yao nodded for granted, blinked his clear eyes, and turned to ask the boy, "Have you heard of Star Sea Republic and Firefly?"
"Hear."
The boy thought about it and said seriously, "I heard that they were a group of timid, timid, despicable, shameless, and worse than cockroaches and rats. They were beaten to pieces by the empire a thousand years ago, and they fled, and then hid in the east and continued to fall. Now they either became completely star pirates or completely extinct, right?"
Li Yao: "...Uh, although I don't like your wording very much, but yes, your brother Yao is from that Star Sea Republic, Firefly!
"How is it, Your Highness, no matter how poor our Firefly is, it is still the 'last land of the Star Sea Republic'. When he fled the empire, he took away so many bottles and jars. The senior management also had a lot of unknown secrets, such as the coordinates of countless relics and secret treasures of the Star Sea Empire era! A lean camel is bigger than a horse, and a rotten ship has three kilograms of nails. Can the Star Sea Republic cultivate a powerful god-transforming man? Is there any flaw in Firefly having the ability to repair and maintain giant god weapons? Just think about it, come up with a flaw, please kill my head!"
Li Yao was righteous and every word had a bone.
But I still feel a little weak in my heart.
The existence of Firefly should be a big secret that only he knows. According to Firefly's own navigation log, it took three or five hundred years, and more than ten years ago, they were discovered by the Black Wind Fleet of the Imperial Expeditionary Force again. However, in order to take this piece of fat, Hei Yeming, the commander of the Black Wind Fleet, did not report the matter to the empire's mainland. Otherwise, if the locals sent new reinforcements, wouldn't such a great contribution be taken away?
When the Black Wind Fleet was hit hard and almost wiped out, commander Hei Yeming was gone. Deputy Commander Di Feiwen wanted to make peace with the Federation and use the power of the Federation to fight back to the Empire. Naturally, he would not teleport such vital information back to the Empire.
Therefore, theoretically speaking, the most common local area of the empire is that the Black Wind Fleet has sailed to the era of the Star Sea Empire, and encountered some barren worlds with little development value. There are still rebellious barbarians living on it. The helpless Black Wind people are grinning and gnawing on this hard bone without any oil.
But we shouldn't know how powerful the Federation is, how many secret treasures are hidden in the Ancient Saint Realm and Kunlun Secret Realm, let alone the existence of the Star Sea Republic and Firefly!
However, this is always "theoretical". Do you know if the queen has any other sources of information?
If it is boring, it will be useless to hold her thigh and call her grandma with her violent temper!
Li Yao condensed his lifelong skills of hundreds of years of hard work into his skin and eyes. He was extremely nervous, but his expression and eyes were extremely open. Every ravine on his face was crisscrossed, which could simply form the word "sincerity"!
The queen frowned and looked at him silently for a long time. Her eyes were like two poisonous snakes. She was about to drill into his brain along his eyeballs and swallow all his memories. She looked at each other for half a minute before she said, "Continue talking, talk about your birth and growth on Firefly."
Li Yao breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had broken through the second level again.
"I was born in the bottom-level compartment of the hundreds of starships, the most ragged and lowest-level starship garbage ships."
Li Yao's eyes were filled with ripples of memories, his voice was low and melancholy, "It was a dark world with a harsh environment, a smoky and chaotic environment, difficult survival, and the survival of the weak, also known as the 'Magic Treasure Grave'."
"Because Firefly is a wanderer in the Star Sea, in the most difficult time, we have not found the ruins of the abandoned world and the Star Sea battlefield for decades, and cannot get effective supplies. Therefore, we must not waste any fragments of magic weapons. Even if it seems useless or fragmented garbage, it will be piled up on the garbage boat and condensed into garbage mountains, which is my home."
When Li Jialing heard this, he couldn't help asking: "There is a mess, and the strong are prey on the weak? Don't you claim to be cultivators?"
Li Yao's lips moved, as if his old face turned red. He could not answer this question, but he turned his erratic eyes to Li Linghai.
The queen snorted coldly and said, "How can there be any clear boundaries for cultivators and immortals? When resources are abundant, everyone is a hypocritical and upright cultivator. When resources are insufficient, more than half of them will starve to death. Haha, the gentlemen and chivalrous people in the past will inevitably regard "the strong prey on the weak, and the victor will be the king" as a famous saying!
"The Firefly has been drifting in the starry sea for nearly a thousand years. Although it has escaped the pursuit of the empire, it is inevitable to flee to the increasingly barren and desolate star fields of human civilization. There is no supply, lack of communication, small space, and lack of resources. How can there be any cultivators left? I am afraid that these remnants of the Star Sea Republic are worse than those of today's fake cultivators!"
Li Yao coughed awkwardly and said, "What the Queen said may make some sense. In short, my childhood was spent in the dangerous environment of the magic weapon tomb and the life-and-death battle. That black experience may be somewhat similar to Li Jialing's growth process. This is also the reason why I became a good impression of this younger brother when I saw him."
"Brother Yao..."
Although Li Jialing still doesn't understand the true meaning of "Magic Treasure Tomb", he still has some understanding of "Star Sea Republic, Firefly" in history books and various reading materials.
Many experts in the Empire have speculated about the ending of Firefly. Their speculation is the same as Li Linghai's statement, believing that in the desperate situation of extremely scarce resources and no way out, Firefly will definitely collapse, and the doomsday scene before the collapse must be a hundred times more terrifying than the most harsh slave mines in the Empire.
When Li Jialing thought that Li Yao was born in such a place, he added a subtle feeling to him.
Li Yao sighed and continued, "In short, I, who have no father or mother, have no support, should have died in the dark and cruel magic weapon grave in my youth. But one day, I accidentally found a scarred uncle in the magic weapon grave, which changed me from then on, and maybe him and your destiny!"
Li Jialing held his breath and said in a trembling voice: "That's, is it my biological father?"
"That's right."
Li Yao nodded and fell into memories from a long time ago. This passage is true, "No one knows where this uncle came from and what happened to him. Anyway, when I found him, he was seriously injured, and even his internal organs were exposed..."
Li Yao noticed that Li Linghai's eyes trembled significantly.
Even the constant breathing was evenly ill, there was a 0.01 second disorder.
At a peerless strong man at the peak of the God Transformation or even at a higher level, this is an impossible out of control.
Before the boy exclaimed again, Li Yao continued: "At that time, I thought this uncle had committed something on another starship or provoked someone, so he sneaked to our garbage ship. This is a common thing among the hundreds of starships that formed the Firefly.
"I don't know what I think, but I just developed a subtle affection for the uncle. Maybe I have never had a father, and he looks very reliable, right?
"Anyway, I saved my uncle. After his injury healed, I rescued me several times and adopted me as his adopted son, taught me all his weapon refining techniques, and gave me a strange rusty flying sword. Later, the flying sword exploded, and there was this sticky, soft and extremely elastic black sphere inside. I called it 'Little Black'."
"You, you..."
The queen couldn't help but pace back and forth. Perhaps she didn't even know what she wanted to ask. She was stunned for a long time and said, "You two are living together?"
"Just two of us, my adoptive father is not a good person who is good at speaking. He usually tries to repair magic weapons in exchange for food to support us and drink wine. His only hobby is to polish the magic weapons fragments to as thin as cicada wings, crystal clear, and then carve them into very beautiful roses, like crystal-like roses."
Li Yao smiled and said, "At the most, our small shack was filled with metal roses full of pits and valleys, and it was so uncomfortable to sleep. I once asked him what he did to do so many useless things, but he couldn't exchange them for a few dollars. It would be better to piece together some more combat magic weapons, but he never answered me.
"Now thinking about it, I understand. Perhaps, he spent his whole life to carve 99,999 metal roses, and carefully engraved various runes on it, making them more beautiful than real roses, just to give it to... the other side of the Star Sea, a woman, right?"
This is true.
Of course, the number of metal roses may not be 99,999, but there must be many.
Because after my father passed away, Li Yao used these metal roses to submerge his ashes, piled them into a small mountain bun, and buried them together in the deepest part of the magic weapon grave, and later was completely buried by endless garbage mountains.
The world has changed. When Li Yao spent a hundred years of hibernation and returned to the Federation, the magic weapon tomb of Fuge City was beyond recognition.
But to this day, perhaps my father's ashes are still buried deep in the ground of Tianyuan Star with these beautiful and shiny metal roses?
Li Linghai was in a daze, but the invisible indifference mask and armor could no longer be condensed.
Chapter completed!