Chapter 38 The Innocent Fool

The story, as the queen tells it, isn't all that interesting.

Lin Xiaodong listened to it calmly, and finally understood the purpose of Lu Xing's series of actions-he wanted to drag the upper echelons of the entire empire and bury his loved ones who had passed away.

But is he worthy?

The queen said to him: "Little guy, don't look at the splendor of this palace, but both people and things are already rotten to the root. Tonight is the deadline at 6:30. Before the king comes to you, I can probably do it for you. You buy half an hour, and take this opportunity to get out of here quickly."

The little mermaid looked at her with a look of sadness and sympathy: "What about you?"

"Me?" The woman smiled flatly, "What can I be afraid of now? Lu Shengzun used means to force my fiancé to plead guilty and break the marriage contract, and kept me in the harem for decades. The flesh and bones are carved out of the same mold as him... You say, what's the point of my life?"

"It doesn't need any meaning to live," said the little mermaid. "As long as you live, you will always meet good things. Just like when I used to pick up garbage, sometimes there may be only rotten apples for days in a row, but sometimes And fresh canned meat!"

The queen stared blankly at the serious expression on his face, and suddenly burst out laughing.

She hadn't laughed so happily in a long time, and she even burst into tears. Lin Xiaodong looked at the woman's curved eyebrows and eyes. Although there were fine lines on the corners of her eyes, she still felt that she must have been a great beauty when she was young.

The little mermaid took the initiative to remove the shield, reached out and gently hugged her body.

"Queen Empress, you are so pretty when you smile."

Feeling the long-lost warm embrace, the queen's eyes slowly moistened. She blinked her eyes hard, but she couldn't control it, and tears came down from her nose.

"You're a good boy." She choked and took the little mermaid into her arms.

"So, let's go...go far away and never come back!"

*

"Ding, good person card +1."

"You can start the character biography," the system said, "Are you sure you want to choose Lu Xing?"

Lin Xiaodong nodded.

"But the queen has already told you the truth, isn't it a bit of a waste to use this opportunity on Lu Xing?" The system asked in confusion, "Although you have already collected two and a half good cards in this world, but the remaining The next two and a half, but there is no sign yet."

"That's why I want to see Lu Xing's memories," Lin Xiaodong said. "It's true that the queen is a member of the royal family, but she and the old king Lu Xing are obviously not the same people, and they don't know all the information from the outside world after living in the harem for a long time. You must know that it is absolutely impossible for a person like Lu Xing to tell others about his plans, even if that person is his biological mother."

The system felt that what he said was indeed reasonable.

"Opening the 'Road Awaken' character biography..."

The first memory is the burning flight cabin.

Thick smoke filled the cabin, and the violent impact when entering the atmosphere turned the world upside down. After all, everything calmed down, but his leg was punctured by a lever, the bones were displaced, the joints were brittle, and the blood flowed non-stop with the slightest movement. , the pain is constantly stimulating the brain nerves.

Lu Xing closed his eyes.

Seeing that he could not save himself, he simply relaxed his body and lay quietly in the cabin waiting for death to come.

In this life, although as a prince, one person is below ten thousand people, but he does not have any sense of "aliveness" at all. Living numbly day by day, getting along with a group of so-called "upper society" who are rotten on the outside and inside, can't feel anything new.

Even when he was about to die, his heart was still as calm as stagnant water.

How boring, he thought.

Until the cabin door of the flight cabin was opened from the outside, the sudden light of the sky made Lu Xingxing narrow his eyes subconsciously and looked up with difficulty.

The moment he saw the person coming, the heart that seemed to be dead in his chest beat violently.

"How are you?"

The young mermaid looked at him with concern and asked in a singing voice.

*

A merman rescued him.

It unfolded like a fairy tale, but after the initial heartbeat, Lu Xing quickly regained his senses.

Since there is hope of surviving, there is no need for him to rush to court death. So Lu Xing moved this mermaid with his rich communication experience and humorous eloquence, and let him take him into the holy land of mermaids.

The moment he saw Jalan Lake, he was indeed shocked.

The vast lake is like a mirror reflecting the blue sky, the transparent lake is like air, and there are long white clouds floating on the water. As far as the eye can see, hundreds of mermaids of different colors and different beauty are playing in the lake. They seem to live in a fairyland completely different from human beings. Their smiles are bright and sunny, and their hearts are also the same as this lake. The same, clean and clear, without a trace of dust.

They were a little wary of themselves, but Noah -- that's what Lu Xing called himself -- he persuaded his companions to accept him and did his best to heal him.

He began to think that if his future crown princess was a mermaid who loved to laugh, it would not be bad.

*

Thousands of mermaids sang in unison at night, like the sound of heaven.

As a human being, Lu Xing was fortunate enough to hear it once.

He had to admit that it was amazing and unforgettable in this life.

*

The starship of the Praetorian Guards found him, Lu Xing looked at the greed in the eyes of the nobles, he was polite on the surface, but he couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

After taking the scales, Noah can now talk to him normally. But the young mermaid did not dare to tell his companions, so Lu Xing heard a lot of doubts about himself, and the old mermaids were all admonishing Noah to stay away from himself, and mankind would bring disaster.

Fortunately, Noah believed him very much, and sincerely felt that he was a very gentle human being.

Lu Xing didn't like any merman except Noah. Seeing that he acquiesced to the swashbuckling behavior of the nobles, Noah thought that these people were Lu Xing's friends, so he in turn persuaded his companions not to be nervous, There is nothing wrong with visiting other planets and gaining insights. If they feel unhappy, just let the humans send them home.

Unfortunately, his friends probably won't come back.

On the way to the central star, Noah accidentally found a book of "The Little Prince". He couldn't put it down. He read it over and over again and again.

Lu Xing is not interested in fairy tale books.

Especially after reading it three or four times, he almost recited the story backwards.

But looking at the young fish lying beside him with big eyes staring at him, he sighed, but he opened the book without complaint, and read softly in the warm light:

"Maybe there are five thousand flowers exactly like you in this world, but only you are my unique rose..."

That night, the idea of ​​building a rose garden for Noah took root in Lu Xing's mind.

He secretly prepared for a long time, from the site selection, to the varieties of roses, to the secret castle that only belongs to the two of them, everything was done by Lu Xing himself.

He wanted to surprise Noah, so he went to learn sculpting again.

Because Lu Xing felt that apart from himself, no one in the world could carve Noah's beauty.

He turned the sculpture into a fountain and placed it in the middle of the rose garden.

Originally, the fountain had already been built, but suddenly one day, Lu Xing looked at the shallow pool and thought for a minute, and then asked someone to chisel the pool several times deeper. All the workers couldn't understand - a good fountain turned out to be a swimming pool?

But Noah liked the fountain pool very much.

Lu Xing looked at the happy smile on the young fish's face and felt that everything was worth it.

But there are always people who don't have long eyes to disturb their lives. At a banquet, his dear father emperor was disgraced because he couldn't let the mermaids sing, and ordered all the mermaids to be executed on the spot.

Lu Xing had a headache. How should he explain it to Noah?

Fortunately, the king finally changed his mind and began to adopt a soft policy. He asked Lu Xing to persuade the mermaids to sing for the nobles, but when the mermaids saw him, they just stared at him with hatred, no matter how persuasive or coercive Lu Xing was, he was unmoved. .

"Lu Xing, you will regret it," when he finally gave up and prepared to leave with a cold snort, the eldest merman said to him, "You can fool Noah for a while, but not for the rest of his life. He will one day You will discover your true face and leave you completely."

Lu Xing stopped.

The young man turned his head, and the gentle smile on his face disappeared in an instant. He stared at the mermaid with a sinister gaze, but the other party did not have any fear, and looked at him with a magnanimous gaze.

"You'd better consider your own situation first," he raised his lips and used a smile to hide his inner anger and panic, "If there is no accident, this is probably the last time we meet."

"Farewell, everyone."

But until he walked out of the gate, none of the hundreds of mermaids behind him begged him for mercy.

After returning from the palace, Lu Xing's life returned to peace.

The flowering season of the rose garden is here, and looking down from the highest point of the castle, the eyes are full of fiery red sea.

He became accustomed to getting up early. After washing up every morning, he would go to the garden to pick the freshest rose and put it by the pillow of the sleeping young fish.

In this way, when the first ray of morning light entered the castle, Noah opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was always the most beautiful rose among the tens of thousands of roses.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" Noah asked him often.

Lu Xing would always answer with a smile, "Because I love you."

Like the little prince in the fairy tale, he fell in love with a unique flower among the billions of stars.

At this time, he was immersed in happiness, but he forgot that reality is not a fairy tale.

The little prince will grow up sooner or later, and the roses he cherishes will wither one day.

But he did not expect that this day would come so quickly.

That day, Lu Xing sat on the edge of the bed, holding the young fish's hand tightly, watching his beloved stop breathing little by little.

Noah did not forgive him until his death.

The laughing mermaid never showed a smile to Lu Xing since she learned the truth. But now, there was a shallow smile on his face, as if he was finally relieved from the endless guilt.

The young man stretched out his hand tremblingly, gently wiped the tears from the corners of the mermaid's eyes, and remembered what the mermaid said to him again in his mind.

He was wrong, horribly wrong.

From then on, there was only one thing left in Lu Xing's life--

revenge.

He worked day and night to make plans, to place his own people around the old king, to perfectly deal with the nobles of different classes, and at the same time to try to gain the support of the lower classes, using all the people he could use, to achieve his goals by any means.

After losing his beloved, Lu Xing now has no worries.

Especially when he heard that Lieutenant General Gu, who had been missing for many days, was finally found and brought a mermaid back to the central star, Lu Xing's first reaction was that he could take this opportunity to provoke the military and the royal family, which was already fierce. the contradiction.

A preliminary plan was formed in his mind, Lu Xing went to meet the king, and used the temptation of the last mermaid in the world and the exclusive power to get the other party to agree to send Gu Xi to send troops, and then he brought the Guards to the military headquarters, and asked Gu. Hee mistook that everything was the king's own idea.

The only accident was when he saw Lin Xiaodong.

The other party had a baby face very similar to Noah's, especially when he looked at the little mermaid's clear eyes, Lu Xing suddenly seemed to have returned to the day they first met.

Only this time, the object that the mermaid depends on is no longer him.

But another strange man.

Lu Xing's gaze fell on Gu Xi's face, noticing his gaze, the man frowned tightly and put the little mermaid behind him, which made Lu Xing uncontrollably think of himself and Noah.

The two people in front of them are just like their original replicas.

A distorted hatred suddenly rose in his heart, for the unreserved trust of the little mermaid, for the tacit understanding and affection between them, for the true love that he once had but has now turned into a dream.

Lu Xing wanted Gu Xi to have a taste of losing his beloved.

So, he tricked the little mermaid into the Rose Manor, put on the rose earrings that once belonged to Noah, and listened to the voice of his dead love resounding in his ears again, deceiving himself to fake the illusion that he was still by his side.

But Lin Xiaodong is not Noah after all.

The little mermaid is lively and smart. Although he is stupid most of the time, and has the common fault of kindness and naivety of mermaids, in some respects, he is much more mature than Noah, who grew up under the care of his elders. After inquiring about the little mermaid's life of picking up garbage in the past, Lu Xing had to admit that he could no longer regard them as the same person.

Soft and tough, this is the image of the little mermaid in his mind.

In the process, he was horrified to find that Lin Xiaodong began to affect his mind. Even when the night was quiet, he closed his eyes and the first thing that came to his mind was no longer Noah's tears, but the little mermaid. Bright and bright smile.

Lu Xing had to re-examine the existence of Lin Xiaodong. He deliberately reduced the number of times he went to the castle, and accelerated the progress of the plan-specifically, on the one hand, he secretly ordered the Guards to cut off the connection between Sagittarius and the central star, pressure All the messages about the request for help from Gu Xi's fleet; on the other hand, they hyped up the last mermaid in the world on the star network, attracting the entire upper echelons of the empire to gather at a banquet.

As early as half a month ago, he took the initiative to have zero-distance contact with the host parasitized by the brain worm.

Using his own body is the only way to bring the brainworm into the palace. Lu Xing knew the consequences of doing so, but he had no fear in his heart, and even felt a sense of relief.

Because after the nobles were parasitized by brain worms, his next plan will only become more crazy...

Lin Xiaodong suddenly opened his eyes.

"Come on, Lu Shengzun is here ahead of time!" The queen shook him and said hastily.

Just as he was talking, the old king's hoarse voice came from the door: "Where's the mermaid? I want a mermaid! Quick!"

Under the subtle influence of the brain worm, his spirit has become fragile to the point where he will be angry at any time. In the short two days of waiting, four servants have angered him because of a little thing and were beaten to death. .

Seeing the anxious expression on the queen's face, the little mermaid just shook her head.

"I'll be fine," he patted the back of the woman's hand soothingly, "because..."

"Bah!"

A shot went off.

After a short silence, the old king's tragic wailing sounded in the open space in front of the bedroom.

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