Chapter 79
Do whatever you want, this is something that Rong Yuan, who holds the "Book of Merits", cannot do.
No, maybe he could have done it before, but not now.
At that time, he was alone. Apart from a few people, he didn't care about anything and didn't fear anything. He didn't care about morality, law, social rules, interpersonal relationships, and force, as long as he didn't agree with it, he didn't care. If he didn't like someone, he would kill him; if he didn't like something, he didn't care about the chaos and panic it would cause.
However, as he grew older and gained more experience, Rong Yuan gradually realized that there are many helplessness and sorrows in this world that are beyond human control. Even if one has the most powerful power, there are many things that cannot be changed - such as human hearts, death, and time.
Just like this time, just seeing the miserable state of those children on Prison Star, Rong Yuan had an endless killing intent in his heart. After the death of all the big and small leaders of the organization, if he was the old him, he would not hesitate to choose to expose the truth to the world, and would catch all the lower-level personnel and related interest groups in the organization, and let those who benefited from the behavior of this organization pay the price, even if the Landia Empire would pay a painful price for this, but the young Rong Yuan would not care about these.
However, now, Rong Yuan will first think about how many innocent people will be harmed after he launches a large-scale retaliation and sanctions? Even those who were harmed by the organization at the beginning, as time goes by, most of them have regained a peaceful life, and may still be trying to forget the past and live a better life. Do they want their current lives to be completely shattered by the sudden "truth"?
Therefore, after weighing the plan proposed by Serinda, Rong Yuan believed that it was indeed the way to cause the least damage and turmoil, so he acquiesced.
——Even though he was actually very disappointed inside.
When she met with Serinda, she also mentioned Lance, including his last few words. When she said this, Serinda's tone and expression were indifferent, and all the sadness, pain and other emotions were hidden in those seemingly calm eyes.
The girl who used to cry when she wanted to cry and laugh when she wanted to laugh, with all her emotions written directly on her face, seemed to have died completely. The only one left was the Queen of Landia.
Rong Yuan knew what Lance meant to Serinda, and he also knew from the leader of the organization that as an undercover agent of the organization in the royal family, the man might have indirectly promoted many things, but he was almost not directly involved. So Rong Yuan missed Lance on the observation deck and just sent the recorded video to Serinda, letting her decide how to deal with it.
Lance's suicide was the result he had expected. Rong Yuan didn't care about the slander he said before his death, but it obviously hurt Serinda badly.
The most important person had been deceiving and using her all along, and was unwilling to repent and apologize in front of her even if he died. As the saying goes, a dying man's words are kind, but when Lance was dying, he was wearing a warm coat and stabbed the softest part of Serinda's heart.
The point is not what he said, but... at this time, he still wanted to use his influence on Serinda to manipulate her.
This was what hurt her the most.
Perhaps at that moment, Serinda finally understood what it meant to be alone.
She still has friends around her, people she can trust, people who love her and are loved by her. But for Serinda, Lance's existence is irreplaceable. And his actions have pushed her to take an important step towards becoming the emperor of a country.
That's why Rong Yuan felt disappointed.
Because during this meeting, Serinda's thoughts were all based on the overall situation, which inevitably made her seem a little lacking in humanity, with a kind of cold and ruthless rationality in her; when she talked, she took everything into consideration, taking Rong Yuan's position and ideas into account, and unconsciously explained a lot about her plans. It seemed that she was discussing with him very gently, but she inadvertently revealed an attitude of "It has been decided, and I don't want to hear any other opinions except agreement."
Before leaving, Serinda, who was exhausted by the recent turmoil in the empire and the countless undercurrents beneath the calm surface, showed a trace of haggardness and weakness, and murmured in a low voice: "Captain, what should I do?"
However, without waiting for Rong Yuan's answer, she just stayed for a moment and left without hesitation.
She forced herself to stop relying on anyone, even Rong Yuan. She chose this path, chose to shoulder the expectations and responsibilities of hundreds of billions of people, and had to be stronger than anyone else, and could no longer be a little girl who was sheltered by others.
Perhaps in a few years, even this superficial gentleness and weakness will disappear, and Serinda's every word and action will be filled with supreme authority and unquestionable momentum; she will become... what an emperor who rules over hundreds of star systems should look like.
It is difficult to say whether this transformation is good or bad for Landia and Serinda herself, but in Rong Yuan's eyes, Serinda has lost the purity that he admired in the past.
But even if Serinda stayed, Rong Yuan had no intention to say anything, let alone change Serinda's decision. On the one hand, he felt that everyone had to be responsible for their own lives, and even friends and family members could not be forced to change their will under the banner of "for your own good". On the other hand... Rong Yuan did not have the passion and impulse to do something about troublesome things.
After his close friends and partners died one after another, Rong Yuan had no energy to do anything for a long time. Sometimes he felt like a pile of burnt ashes, which still had some sparks and residual heat but did not have the energy to burn again.
Until Pea wakes up.
Even though I am also a little bit small, I told him: "Do whatever you want to do."
From beginning to end, there was no one else or anything else in those bright dark eyes, only Rong Yuan.
Rong Yuan smiled and suddenly felt relieved.
It is regrettable to lose a friend, but there is always someone who will stay with him forever, never leave him, and accompany him through life and death.
He already has the greatest luck in life, so what else does he want?
Seeing that Wandou was still staring at him intently, Rong Yuan touched Wandou's head and said with a smile, "How about we leave Landia after this matter is settled?"
"Leave?" Pea blinked and asked, "Okay... where are we going?"
"Go to a place where you can earn a lot of merit, level up, and then..." Rong Yuan's smile faded slightly, his tone lowered, and he said softly: "Let's break into the Pillar of Creation again."
"Well, okay." Pea didn't look surprised or afraid, but just confirmed: "Just the two of us? You and me?" It seemed to care more about the answer to this question than the danger of the Pillar of Creation.
"Of course." Rong Yuan just finished speaking when he suddenly felt something was wrong. Turning his head, he saw Alpha staring at them dimly, the red light of the camera dim, and he looked inexplicably very sad.
Rong Yuan laughed and said, "Of course...Alpha is also here. If you want to go, you can go with me."
"It's very dangerous! You will die!" Pea immediately turned his head to look at Alpha and said solemnly.
"There is no such emotion as fear in the intelligent brain program." Alpha said slowly: "For me, death feels similar to shutting down the computer, so I actually experience it once every night. It's no big deal."
——How can this be the same?
The pea puffed up its face, not very happy. But Alpha got a satisfactory answer, turned around and fiddled with its flowers again, looking very happy.
Rong Yuan poked Wandou's face and wanted to laugh.
As time went by, his mentality became older and older, but the pea became more and more lively. At first, it was like a computer without emotions that could only run according to the program. As time went by, the pea gradually became more emotional, and day by day, it grew into its current lively appearance. If it was not explained, who would have thought that it was not a real human being?
Pea was poked by Rong Yuan and it was shaking. The little emotion it had just felt was also shaken away. It grabbed Rong Yuan's finger and shook it, saying, "Do you want to accept Serinda's commission?"
During the previous meeting, Serinda had entrusted Rong Yuan with a task, which was the matter of the intelligent brain Lancao being controlled by the organization. Although almost all the senior executives in the organization were dead, there was still a big leader who had escaped, and everyone only knew that such a person existed, but did not know who he or she was. The intelligent brain Lancao was only rigidly providing basic services for the empire according to the system settings, and was not truly under the control of the empire. Apart from anything else, the fact that the big leader was able to conceal his identity until now was undoubtedly due to the power of Lancao.
When Serinda said this, Rong Yuan only said that he would think about it, but Wandou could see that he was actually planning to accept it.
Rong Yuan sighed and said, "After all, she once called me Captain. And..."
Rong Yuan didn't say the rest, but Wandou understood.
During the time when Rong Yuan was missing, it was impossible for Rong Yuan not to be touched by what Serinda did. Getting rid of the organization, the biggest tumor of the empire, and freeing Lancao from the control of the organization was Rong Yuan's gift to Serinda for her ascension to the throne, and it was also his repayment for Serinda's past favor.
When dealing with true friends, Rong Yuan would not count how much each other had given. The reason why he calculated so clearly now was because he had already drawn a line in his mind for Serinda.
"Is what he said true?" A hoarse, metallic voice sounded.
Rong Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly and turned to look.
The little girl who had been silent and seemed to have no sense of existence after he rescued her stood in the corner and asked in a low voice, her voice was not as clear and pleasant as that of other little girls. She looked cute, and even when she stood up straight, she was not as tall as the table, but she would never make people feel cute, because her eyes were as still as dead water, and when she looked at people without blinking, it only made people feel creepy.
The little girl pointed at the man in the light curtain. The man had already finished talking about the part about Prison Star, which was about how they used these dead warriors born on Prison Star who had no identity and seemed to not exist at all to carry out assassinations, lurking, suicide attacks, and disguised themselves to replace the identities of certain dead people to gain a lot of profits for the organization.
To the little girl, those benefactors who saved them from a hopeless hell in her eyes were also the real culprits behind the tragic situation on Prison Star. This truth was enough to make most people collapse, but the girl's expression did not seem to change at all, and she just asked again: "Is it true?"
Rong Yuan said: "Yes."
The girl looked at him silently.
This man was the target of her assassination and the enemy of her "boss". Logically speaking, given the relationship between them, this man might be deceiving, hiding things from her, and using her. He might have saved her for this purpose.
But the girl didn't believe the doctor who saved her for free and was very kind, nor did she believe the instructor and superior who brought them out of the prison star and taught them carefully. She was willing to believe the man who was once her enemy. Maybe it was because of his eyes at that time, or maybe it was the warmth she felt when he held her in his arms. In short, she believed him.
It's a wonderful feeling.
"Golden Cherry." After a moment of silence, the girl suddenly said, "My name is Golden Cherry."
"I am Rong Yuan, I believe you already know that." Rong Yuan said.
The girl nodded and said, "I want to leave, is that okay?"
