It was around autumn.
Red and yellow leaves covered the streets and alleys of Tianjing Planet. Four light green jet cylinders flew past the treetops at a low altitude, like the tip of a pen brushing past the bright colors. Then, they landed at an airport outside the center of the capital city.
The group changed to military vehicles and headed toward the center of the city along the spacious high-grade roads that extended in all directions like a spider web. They arrived at their destination in the afternoon. The majestic and cold side door of the palace slowly opened, and a group of guards wearing royal military uniforms walked out. They silently took a moving self-restraining bed from the fleet and headed into the depths of the palace.
The white restraints were like spider silk, tightly binding the thin, weak, and paralyzed young foreigner on the moving bed, making him look like an insect that was about to be sucked to death.
Along the way, the Empire's people didn't use equipment to control Xu Le's vision and hearing. He was finally able to take a look at this city that only existed in the imagination of the Federation people — the Empire's capital city of Tianjing Planet.
The vast maple forest on the outskirts of the city, the extraordinarily wide highways, and the unique architecture all brought him a great shock. It must be known that although the Federation had paid a great price to obtain an image of this huge city, very few people were able to see it with their own eyes.
However, all the Federation people who had seen the capital city of Tianjing Planet should be dead, right?
Xu Le was very clear that no matter what the Emperor's intentions were for summoning him, death was already very close to his body. Being able to see the Empire's capital city before his death and feel the atmosphere that the Federation people would rarely experience in their entire lives, according to his inherent nature, his eyes should emit a greedy and emotional glow.
However, there was only calmness in this pair of small eyes today. Even though his heart was shaken when he saw this majestic palace that was known as the most magnificent human building in the universe, he controlled his facial expression extremely well.
The Empire's soldiers who were pushing the bed into the depths of the palace noticed the calmness of this Federation captive and couldn't help but have a strange feeling.
Xu Le narrowed his eyes and looked at the huge cylindrical alloy building that pierced through the clouds in the distance. He guessed that it was probably the palace where the emperor lived in the rumors. He was shocked again, but the expression on his face became colder and colder.
How many truly important moments in a person's life could there be? Marriage, childbirth, funeral … Today, he, a soldier of the Federation, was going to meet the Federation's greatest enemy, the warmongering, arrogant, and cruel emperor of the Empire. If he didn't pretend now, when would he? At this moment, he missed the wide sunglasses that Zou Yu had given him. He felt that he should be Du Shaoqing.
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Riding the maglev elevator that had long been forced to eliminate by the Federation's Energy Management Committee because of its huge energy consumption, it did not take long for them to reach the sky from the ground of the palace that was full of flowers, trees, and surveillance equipment.
It was really the heavens.
The sun in the distance moved slowly toward the horizon. The clouds just had a hint of sunset aura. Golden light rose, red, and people seemed to be floating outside the building. It gave people a feeling that they were within reach.
Those who lived here day and night, no matter how firm and steady their minds were, would still be moved higher and higher by the distance from the ground and the drifting clouds around them. They would become more and more indifferent. They would become more and more used to looking down on the common people and take it as a lifelong pleasure.
With a hint of criticism, the tightly bound Xu Le turned his neck with difficulty and retracted his gaze from the clouds outside the palace. He narrowed his eyes and looked into the darkness in front of him, looking at the back figure in the depths of the darkness.
That figure belonged to a middle-aged man. He wore a robe and sat on a soft couch. He held a golden sword in his hand and did not look back.
A screen blocked in front of the soft couch. There were golden sunflowers painted on it. At this time, the sunset outside the building reflected the golden light, making the screen seem like it was going to burn. The sunflowers seemed like they were going to come to life. However, all of the dim light fell on the middle-aged man's back and became dim.
It was because he was the emperor of the Empire, the man with the greatest power in the universe.
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No one in the Federation had ever seen the emperor's true appearance. They only knew that he was called Huai Fuchai, the seventy-ninth emperor of the Empire's White Hibiscus Dynasty, the unmatched monarch of the entire Left Sky Star Region. In reality, not even the Empire's ordinary nobles and commoners knew what their emperor looked like. Ever since he ascended the throne, he had never appeared in any of the Empire's media, nor were there any images leaked out.
The Federation's research concluded that this emperor was deliberately maintaining a sense of mystery in front of his subjects. This was to facilitate the protection of the imperial family's shaky rule.
In many relatively strange discussions, people even called this emperor and the intelligence chief of the Green Dragon Mountain anti-government army as the two most mysterious people in the universe.
Xu Le did not believe this. In his opinion, that uncle with a mouth full of rotten teeth was the one who truly deserved the word mysterious.
But as a soldier of the Federation, to be able to see the emperor of the Empire with his own eyes and come into contact with him at such a close distance, how could he not be excited?
As the screen of golden sunflowers grew closer and closer, that robed figure grew clearer and clearer. Xu Le grew more and more nervous. Ever since he fled Donglin, he had seen many powerful figures with extraordinary auras. He was also a frequent guest at the presidential residence's private banquets. However, for some reason, he always felt that the emperor under that robe gave him a particularly strong sense of oppression.
Was it the smell of power or the smell of death? Was it the identity of the emperor or this person himself? Xu Le could not tell clearly, but he could be sure that in his entire life, it was probably only when he first saw the War God Li Pifu in Qingcheng's military prison that his mind would be shaken like this.
Behind the screen stood Huai Caoshi. In front of the soft couch, there was a white-haired aristocrat of the Empire. He was half-bowing and softly saying something.
The emperor under the robe slowly raised his right arm. This simple movement was enough to stop the millions of soldiers at the same time. The faint mist outside the palace seemed to have paused for a moment. The aristocrat's narration came to an abrupt end.
The emperor's voice was a bit low, like a thick book being blown by the wind.
"Did you kill Prince Delin?"
"Yes." Xu Le did not look at Huai Caoshi behind the screen. Narrowing his eyes, he stared at the back of the emperor and answered calmly, as if he was answering a small question in a cooking program.
"Did you activate the Charter on 3320?"
"Yes."
"Did you kill Prince Carlton?"
"Yes."
The emperor did not turn his head. His eyes should have fallen on that old aristocrat. He let out a few strange laughs.
"What's the relationship between you and Nasri?"
"Never heard of him."
"Well, I heard that his last name was Feng Yu over there?"
The emperor slowly turned around. His face was cold and graceful.
Hearing the last question, Xu Le's pupils suddenly shrank. He felt that the band around his neck suddenly tightened, making it difficult for him to breathe.
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