Two days later, under Qi Qing’s special arrangement, it was his turn to conduct space patrols at the base.
Half of the escort team stayed at the ground base, and the other half followed Qi Qing and boarded the starship. Ji Xingjue was among them and followed the starship silently away from the base.
Qi Qing had already explained clearly the affairs after leaving. In Damel’s absence, Tian Luo would be the temporary guard captain. After listening carefully, Tian Luo solemnly saluted. “Marshal, don’t worry, my subordinates will definitely complete their mission!”
A few minutes later, the main ship quietly opened, dropping the two people that headed towards the Imperial Capital.
Ji Xingjue seemed to be restless. He took a stroll in the starship, made a cup of coffee, and leaned against the bulkhead to look at the star map with his eyes narrowed.
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Qi Qing looked back at him, feeling not satisfied. “Why are you so far away from me?”
Ji Xingjue smiled and took a sip of coffee. “I’m afraid you won’t calm down.”
Qi Qing was stunned and silent for two seconds. “Not at all. It’s not comfortable to stand either. Come sit down.”
Ji Xingjue said, “You are worth 300 billion, I dare not sit on you.”
“….”
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Ji Xingjue was defeated. He slowly came to Qi Qing’s side and pinched him angrily. “You really want me to give Dan Dan a sister, don’t you think you are a pervert?”
Qi Qing calmly pointed out the problem, “Isn’t it because you were foolishly provoking me?”
Ji Xingjue took it for granted. “This is called enjoyment, Lord Marshal is really dull.”
Although there had been a lot of overturns recently, he still had a great time enjoying himself.
Qi Qing glanced at the layers of bruises and hickeys on the back of his neck, decided to let go of his skin, and calmly looked away. “Cecilie has already gone to the palace.”
The palace had been sealed off on the grounds of protecting the safety of His Majesty the Emperor, which was obviously Harlem’s will.
Cecilie’s mother was the Emperor’s sister after all, and unlike the menace Deen, she was able to enter smoothly.
Although the terminal would be confiscated.
Ji Xingjue nodded, a little suspicious. “How come you know the people around me so well?”
Qi Qing: “Do I?”
“The Lord Marshal has a good relationship with the principal.”
Qi Qing’s face didn’t change. “It’s okay.”
Ji Xingjue glanced at him with a smile yet not a smile but did not ask further.
Considering Ji Xingjue’s health, this interstellar voyage was still mainly about short-distance jumps. The two took turns to control the starship and took turns to rest.
Not long after the voyage, Ji Xingjue felt a little sleepy.
Even after he bit the tip of his tongue and drank a whole cup of bitter coffee, he still didn’t see much effect.
His consciousness had been getting weaker and weaker lately.
Qi Qing noticed it keenly, but his expression didn’t change. He stroked the top of his hair and said in a steady voice. “Go get some sleep. I’ll call you when it’s your turn.”
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Ji Xingjue blinked hard, responded vaguely before turning around and returned to the resting cabin. He frowned and lay down undressed.
He didn’t tell Qi Qing that he had been dreaming a lot recently.
Because he was not sure whether those were dreams or not.
After his consciousness fell into chaos, Ji Xingjue dreamed of a gorgeous place again.
His sight cast from bottom to top, from the magnificent palace to the vast sky. For some unknown reason, Ji Xingjue knew that he longed for that sky in his dream.
He also knew exactly where this gorgeous palace was.
The magnificent palace that was located at the highest point of the Imperial Capital Ankara.
Someone spoke beside him. “…Your Highness, do you want to go out and take a look?”
Ji Xingjue shook his head. For a moment, he was unable to distinguish between himself and the person in the dream, but a real anger filled his chest. “Take me to see my father.”
“Are you going to stop His Majesty’s ‘Human Bionically Transformation’ plan? His Majesty might be very angry……”
The sound of incessantly chatter brushed past his ears, as if they were separated by a layer of water. Ji Xingjue turned his head, trying to see clearly who was next to him, but instead caught a glimpse of his own reflection in the pool nearby.
The face inside was so familiar that he broke into a cold sweat.
It was the reflection of himself.
The dream was shattered.
When Ji Xingjue woke up gasping for breath, the starship was still driving smoothly. He wiped off the cold sweat, turned on the optical brain, and entered the prince’s name again.
The rebel army had been secretly established before the Crown Prince was born, and there were many assassinations against the royal family. His health was not good, so the tyrant then guarded him more tightly and forbade any wind or rain to come to his side.
The tyrant had been in great power for his whole life, and his only weakness was the Crown Prince. He was afraid that if his photos were circulated, people from the rebels would get them and assassinate the prince, so not even a single bit of video data was left behind.
There were only a few words in the history books about this Crown Prince who died young when he was less than twenty years old.
Ji Xingjue murmured “Ludwig” several times and touched his heart.
When the name Ludwig was called, there was always a vague sense of familiarity.
The history of the Randa Empire was written by the victor of the Glorious Empire, and everything was quite distorted.
Ji Xingjue had been frequently searching and collecting real historical materials. As he looked at them, there would always be a huge void and a sense of loss filled with sadness in his heart.
That huge Empire that lasted for thousands of years had fallen more than a hundred years ago, and its former glory had long been buried in time and would never be regained again.
Could this almost absurd regret also be brought to him by the chip in his body?
Ji Xingjue shook his head in a daze, rolled out of bed a little dazedly, and walked out of the resting cabin. He raised his head and saw Qi Qing’s back in the operation cabin, and immediately regained a sense of reality again. His erratic mood stabilized as he smiled, “Did you secretly jump to a few more points while I was asleep?”
Qi Qing looked at him with a serious gaze. “Your face doesn’t look good.”
“I had a nightmare,” Ji Xingjue walked quickly to him, smiled and stretched out his hand, “Xiao Bao, hug me.”
Qi Qing hugged him as he was told, tightening his arms and asking, “What nightmare?”
The warmth from his lover wiped away the regrets in the dream and completely brought him back to reality. Ji Xingjue rubbed the crook of his neck comfortably and said, “I dreamed that Dan Dan turned into a child and had to go to school. Every semester, he would get a bunch of zero points, and we would fight over who should go to the parent-teacher meeting.”
Qi Qing: “….”
It does sound scary.
But this was definitely not what Ji Xingjue dreamed about.
The terminal shook. Ji Xingjue immediately interrupted Qi Qing’s words and said, “Cecilie replied, let me take a look.”
Qi Qing frowned, pinched his waist, and swallowed his words.
Because the palace was under emergency measures, everyone had to be searched when entering, and even terminals were not allowed. Ji Xingjue did not let Cecilie bring any gadgets in to avoid being searched.
What Cecilie sent was a video.
Ms. Cecilie, who was a talented and daring woman, modified her hairdo overnight and walked into the palace openly with the monitor on her head without being discovered at all.
Even the reckless Ji Xingjue was a little worried for her.
He pinched his eyebrows and opened the video.
In order not to be scanned out, Cecilie had to compress and decompress the monitor. She only opened it to record a short section, and the picture was not particularly high-definition.
This was in His Majesty the Emperor’s chamber.
It had only been a few months since they last met, and the energetic Emperor suddenly weakened a lot. He was lying on the bed, as if his soul was imprisoned by something, and he could only respond vaguely occasionally.
Harlem stood aside and looked at the Emperor worriedly. Halfway through his words, he personally gave the medicine to His Majesty the Emperor. With a gentle voice, he said, “Father, I know you don’t like this, but you have to take the medicine well to get better as soon as possible. Don’t hide your illness and avoid medical treatment.”
Cecilie pretended to have dropped something, and when she lowered her head to pick it up, the monitor in her hair shook and caught the flash of a smile on Harlem’s lips.
When Cecilie raised her head, Harlem’s face was still filled with sincere concern and sadness.
At the end of the video, Ji Xingjue gasp in amazement. “Did you see it? This is a real performance.”
Even he was deceived.
Thinking about it carefully, whether it was Yser’s news or the several times he came to help him later, Harlem’s arrival was an astonishing coincidence.
Qi Qing raised his eyebrows.
Ji Xingjue knew what he was going to say; he replied to Cecilie while praising. “I know, I know, the Lord Marshal has a keen eye, and he can see that there is something wrong with him at a glance.”
Cecilie witnessed with her own eyes that Harlem had a problem, and she couldn’t help but feel a little excited, and even asked if there was anything else she could do to help.
Ji Xingjue replied ruthlessly: No, stay put at school and don’t go out casually.
Cecilie: ?
Ji Xingjue: Harlem will monitor you for a period of time to confirm whether you have any problems.
Cecilie replied with a series of ellipses, understanding that this was not a fun thing, and said honestly: Got it.
After making sure that Cecilie would not act without authorization, Ji Xingjue calmed down and turned around to ask, “Speaking of which, am I still ‘recuperating’ in a private nursing home in the Imperial Capital?”
Qi Qing nodded, “I had people guard you.”
In the past few days, at Doyler Base, Ji Xingjue wore a camouflage ring when he went out. Except for the members of the escort team, no one else knew that he was outside.
Ji Xingjue said happily, “Then when we get to the Imperial Capital, let’s go separate ways. I’ll go fishing in the nursing home.”
Qi Qing wiped the mole on the corner of his eye and agreed to this idea.
Short-distance jumps were more difficult, but Ji Xingjue and Qi Qing worked well together, except for the Marshal who liked to use deception to get more work.
When approaching the Third Galaxy, Damel had already escorted the envoy to the Imperial Capital and followed orders to prepare for Qi Qing’s response.
A few days later, the starship secretly arrived at a satellite base near the Imperial Capital. With the help of people arranged by Damel in advance, the two sneaked into the transport starship and successfully returned to the Imperial Capital.
As soon as the Emperor fell ill, Harlem ordered the weather system to be adjusted.
The wind and snow that were supposed to last for several months in Ankara suddenly stopped and was replaced by a warm spring breeze. The Imperial Capital, which seemed a bit dead in winter, once again showed its prosperity.
Damel was under surveillance and could not come to pick them up in person.
Ji Xingjue looked at the Imperial Capital bathed in sunshine and praised, “On this point, Harlem has done a pretty good job.”
He raised his hand and bumped fists with Qi Qing. “I’m going to the nursing home, and I have to trouble Lord Marshal to spread the news that I woke up. Maybe the fish will take the bait soon.”
Qi Qing hummed. Seeing his way of saying goodbye to a good brother, he twitched his eyebrows, leaned over and pulled him into his arms, and kissed him at the corner of his eye. “Be careful, I’ll come over at night.”
Ji Xingjue lay in his arms, blinked obediently. Revealing smile, he turned to kiss his lips, and put the fake ring into his hand. “You need it more than I do.”
After saying goodbye at Starport, Ji Xingjue got into the car arranged by Damel and headed towards the private nursing home.
As expected, there were people heavily guarding the outside of the nursing home. Ji Xingjue sneaked in, met with the person who took care of him, changed into the clothes of the nursing home, and lay down on the bed.
His face had not looked good lately, which was consistent with his weak and sick look.
The unconscious Marshal’s wife finally woke up. As soon as the news spread, people soon came to visit the nursing home.
An old acquaintance.
The project leader on the military side, Admiral Rand.
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