Edjo paused for a moment, looking out the floor-to-ceiling window. After taking a breath, he whispered: "Your Majesty, can you guess where this batch of oysters is following the tide?"

Lu Mingfei looked slightly startled. He followed Adejo's gaze and saw the world in his eyes. It was a city still brightly lit in the night, and the quiet and vast Lake Michigan in the distance.

"But Chicago...there is no Haicai." Lu Mingfei murmured, and he guessed the answer behind this question.

"After calculations, scientists realized that what the oysters follow is actually the high tide time of the Chicago sea. If there is a sea in Chicago." Edcho looked at Lu Mingfei deeply, "There is no sea in Chicago, but they imagined it.

A sea that is exactly the same as their hometown in their memories. They imagine when the tide should rise and fall, and then follow the ebb and flow of this imaginary sea to adjust their own cycles and the rhythm of the sea.

Compatible."

"Your Majesty, the time may have come. We will finally face the final question. Where do the dragons come from? Where does the elemental sea... come from?"

"Every dragon clan will never forget your glory and majesty engraved in the blood, just like every first-generation species cannot forget the sea we saw when we were born into the world."

"The illusory sea that gently embraces the entire planet."

"We once thought that was our hometown, the starting point and birthplace of the Dragon Clan, but until the day when Frisis overthrew your throne, he told us that everything was wrong and false. It was you who

The reality of the world is hidden from us.”

"Of course we will not believe so easily the words of a traitor."

"But maybe... maybe, I'm thinking, maybe Frisius didn't lie, otherwise how could he dare to betray you? But he may not know all the truth."

"Your Majesty, for us old guys, many things are actually unimportant. Wealth, power, life and death are all important. Only... you."

"But it seems you don't need us anymore."

"We hid in the dark and investigated everything after your birth. Your brother hid you very well. Until you took the initiative to appear in front of the world, we were unable to find you in advance. We looked through your life, Smith.

He even went to the small southern town where you were while hiding his identity. He stood on the paulownia path you often walked and told us on the phone that it seemed as if he could see you walking alone on this path all those years when he looked back.

In this situation, he watched you walking towards him, then turned your back to him and walked away. Finally, he was silent for a long time and said three words."

"I can't figure it out."

"Yes, how can we understand that you are so great that you are willing to be so humble as dust? Maybe we have never understood you at all, and you will not confide in us."

"But we also thought, if you are really willing to be ordinary, why do you want to stand in front of this world again?"

"Mars said that you must have found a reason to face the world again, a reason to be the enemy of the world even if you expose yourself."

"We didn't understand it at first, until we found out the people around you now..."

"Your Majesty, you no longer need us to lead your life."

"To this day, we are still not used to the world without you, but you have long been accustomed to the world without us. Maybe this is the world you yearn for."

"We are a little sad, but we are also happy."

"Your Majesty, we have all lived too long. Sometimes when we look at the increasingly prosperous human civilization, we even wonder if the dragon race is no longer suitable for this world?"

"For us today, the truly priceless thing may be the truth of it all."

Ed Qiao sat opposite Lu Mingfei. His face was extremely old, and his gentle eyes shone with peace and even kindness.

He looked at Lu Mingfei and their beloved Majesty, and for the first time in his life, he said in a joking tone in front of His Majesty:

"After all, we can't lose to that guy Frisius again. We lost to him once back then, and we can't embarrass Your Majesty again this time."

Lu Mingfei looked sideways in silence and looked directly at Adeqiao.

He slowly closed his eyes, and a tide of memories swallowed him up. It was an illusory tide, an illusory sea, but it crossed the boundary of reality.

In a daze, he returned to the lonely and deserted hall, and opened his eyes in the sunshine.

The dust rising in the air is clearly visible in the sunlight.

Someone pushed open the door of the Bronze Palace, and the wind blew in from outside. The jingling of wind chimes spread far through the empty world, like dandelions blown away by the wind, over the hills and plains, passing by.

I don’t know how many thousands of years ago the forest carried away the loneliness accumulated in the Bronze Palace, but it never brought back the greetings from afar.

The veiled woman walked into the hall, stared at the king on the throne who was carrying the whole world alone, and lightly opened her lips:
Chapter completed!