An engineer's way of thinking was very logical. It was okay to make bold assumptions, but one had to be careful when seeking verification. When the object of research was a non-repeatable life, one would be even more careful when seeking verification. Before he was certain, Xu Le would definitely not take risks because of the desire in his heart and the vague hope that seemed to exist.
The Federation should be in the summer or autumn of the 71st year of the Constitutional Calendar. It was spring on the Empire's Tianjing Planet. While he was here, he was thinking about the summer and autumn on the other side. He lived quietly in the slums.
Looking at the ordinary slums of the Empire who were busy day after day and thinking about his own situation, he suddenly seemed to be able to understand how they felt. The universe was so big and so beautiful that they could only stay on the surface for the rest of their lives unless they went to war. Just like the people of the East Woods District back then, they were still bound by heavy gravity and life even though they were in the magnificent space age.
He was not very familiar with his neighbors, but he could exchange a few words with them. Not many people could remember his extremely ordinary face, but the vegetable vendors that he frequented had already started to leave vegetables for him.
The longer he lived in the capital of the Empire, the stranger Xu Le felt.
These extremely ordinary, irritable, and honest people of the Empire would occasionally talk about the distant space war. When they mentioned the people of the Federation, they would always become abnormally angry and want to eat all the men of the Federation alive and snatch all the women of the Federation to be their wives.
Where did this anger and fanaticism come from? Was it an invasion in textbooks, or a racial hatred that had been passed down for many years?
These vegetable sellers, vegetable buyers, protection fee collectors, protection fee payers, old people, young people, men, women, and the ordinary slums of the Empire, were all the Federation's irreconcilable enemies?
Xu Le really found it hard to associate these people with beasts. He could not understand. Was it this group of people who slaughtered the Federation civilians like pigs and dogs on the West Woods?
War should not only make women go away, it should also make civilians go away.
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Leaving Aunt Susan's dilapidated courtyard more and more often, he walked further and further away at will. Often, he would subconsciously pass by the courtyard whose walls were painted all white. In fact, this was not a subconscious action.
This courtyard occupied a very large area. The buildings in the courtyard were not tall and did not exceed three floors. Looking from afar, they were basically all luxurious wooden structures. Whether it was the walls or the wooden pillars, they were all painted white. It was so white that it made people feel solemn.
The white courtyard was surrounded by tall trees, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers coming from inside. The streets outside the courtyard were extremely clean, and there were many soldiers in plain clothes looking around vigilantly in the shadows, which made them seem somewhat out of place in this slum that was full of dirt and garbage.
Xu Le would often pass through half of the alley. Every now and then, he would see ordinary citizens of the Empire kneeling on the flagstones outside the white courtyard, prostrating themselves on the ground and murmuring pious and fanatical prayers. Nobody dared to disturb them.
One day.
After buying two cans of metal adhesive in a hardware store, Xu Le walked through the alley and came to a restaurant that sold caviar. He bought two packs of caviar, but did not leave immediately. Instead, he ordered an unknown light drink and sat on the seat facing the street on the second floor. He drank the caviar and ate happily. The corner of his eyes drifted to the white courtyard that he had been observing for a long time.
Master Fan Manor.
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Regarding this Master Fan Manor and the title of the Great Teacher, there was no record in the Federation's intelligence. He only vaguely remembered hearing the old man mention it once. But according to his understanding, especially the story told by Huai Caoshi, he knew very well what this Master Fan Manor and the Great Teacher inside meant to the Empire.
He did not know what kind of person the current Great Teacher was, but he knew that this courtyard was related to the imperial family of the Empire's Baijin Dynasty through marriage for generations. A certain Master Fan had once crossed the universe and taught two students, Li Pifu and Feng Yu. To be able to teach two such heaven-defying existences, what kind of heaven-defying existence was this person himself?
From a certain point of view, the previous owner of this white courtyard could be considered his Grand Master? Looking at this quiet and mysterious manor, even with Xu Le's strong will, he could not help but feel a little uneasy.
He knew that this place was definitely heavily guarded. He knew that there was definitely an extremely powerful existence in the Master Fan Manor. He knew that he should not have come here to take the risk, but in the end, he still came.
This was because he had too many questions in his heart that needed answers. The secret of the bracelet, the secret of the chip replacement, the secret of the Eight Rice Zhenqi, these secrets were very important to his life.
More importantly, the Great Teacher had once crossed the universe and quietly entered the Federation. How did he do it? Where was that amazing spaceship now? The star chart that the old military god had mentioned in prison … Was it the shortcut that Master Fan had taken back then?
Xu Le chewed on his caviar and narrowed his eyes as he looked over, not noticing that the crumbs were falling from the corner of his mouth. In the face of the imperial family's tyrannical and even somewhat crazy search and interception operations, he had to safely leave this planet, leave the Empire, and return to the Federation … It seemed that he could take the old path that his predecessors had taken, but this path might be even more difficult.
Just a few days ago, the imperial military police once again combed through the slums. Although they still did not discover his existence, it already made him feel uneasy. Time seemed to be running out, and he was getting more and more nervous.
However, to break into this white courtyard and investigate the mysterious Master Fan Manor, from a rational point of view, was not a wise choice. It was more like a suicide mission.
This decision was too hard to make.
Right at this moment, a huge commotion suddenly came from the streets in the distance. Xu Le was shocked to find that many of the Empire's citizens had put down what they were doing and were rushing over. Gradually, the earth-shattering commotion turned into orderly angry shouts.
"Race not destroyed, fight to the end!"
"Kill the Federation!"
"Long live the Empire!"
"Long live the Emperor!"
"Fight to S1!"
"Kill!"
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Autumn of the 71st year of the Federation's Constitutional Calendar, spring of the 724th year of the Empire's White Hibiscus Dynasty's Imperial Calendar.
The Federal Fleet, consisting of 1,400 warships, passed through the two giant warp holes in the Night Scorpion Nebula and Gary Corridor at the same time.
The Federal Fleet easily defeated the Empire's border fleet and headed straight for the Virgo Galaxy in the southwestern star region of the Empire.
The third cosmic war officially broke out. The vast sea of stars that had just calmed down was once again lit up by the flames of war.
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