Superpowers of Sky City

Chapter 333 The Light of Dust

When they returned to the Knights headquarters, it was past three o'clock in the afternoon.Gongsun Ce got out of the car first, and vented, "Don't follow me!"

Elandia sat in the driver's seat, looking at him through the window.

"You can act alone, but please don't leave the range of the Knights headquarters..."

Dawn Knight seemed to want to say some precautions, but he didn't listen.Distraught, he strode away, leaving the knight alone in the car.Knights in white armor came and went around, Gongsun Ce looked at this group of glamorous people, recalled everything he saw in the East District, and felt more and more depressed.

He was not at all surprised that Creeky Hyde was wrong, he was so used to it.Chaotic management, discrimination against those with abilities, and in the end, innocent people are always unlucky, but the upper echelons are singing and dancing... He has seen countless similar incidents in Feikong City, and now he has arrived at the capital of the majestic Morton Kingdom. It turns out that this is just a more peaceful capital of the sky.

What a fucking rotten world this is!It's hopelessly rotten!
"Fuck you!"

Gongsun Ce cursed loudly in the corridor, attracting the surprised gazes of the knights.He didn't care about it, and walked around the headquarters of the huge knight order like a headless chicken, not seeing his eldest brother and Orianna.He was bored, he was hungry but had no desire to eat, he was full of anger but had no one to vent.The house numbers on both sides of the corridor flashed past the edge of the viewing angle.Archives, public armed storage, tea room...

"Bang!" He kicked open the door of the tea room like a violent game player, and walked in aggressively.The three knights were drinking tea around the table, the knight Yulia frowned, the knight Gaffri showed surprise, the knight McCollow just brought the teacup to his mouth, opened his mouth in embarrassment, and said: "... good afternoon?"

"Are you drinking tea?!" Gongsun Ce questioned.

McCullough looked down at his teacup and said awkwardly, "Yes."

"You still have the face to drink tea?!"

The old regiment leader shook the teacup up and down, and said aggrievedly: "...Yes?"

Yulia stood up vigorously like a cheetah, and roared like thunder: "Don't be rude to the leader!"

"Pay attention to your demeanor, gentlemen." Gaffrey quickly put down his teacup and stood in the middle before the two young men fought.He pushed Yulia back to the seat with one hand, took Gongsun Ce to the empty seat with the other, and said in his unmistakable tone: "Please sit down, Mr. Gongsun. I believe you must have met Some controversial issues...why not talk about it with those of us who are well-informed, native-born officials with excellent vision and rich practical experience?"

The knight Gaffrey was all smiles, and the young Taoist couldn't find a reason to refuse for a while.

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It took Gongsun Ce more than ten minutes to tell the story from beginning to end. He drank up the tea angrily and put the teacup back on the saucer as the end of this self-report.

"...Too bad, Gaffrey." The old captain shook his head sadly.

"Yes, Captain." Gaffrey nodded, "It's the same as every day in the Eastern District."

"Are you just talking sarcastic here?!" Gongsun Ce became angry again, "Like a bystander who has nothing to do with you?!"

Yulia sternly said, "What qualifications do you have to accuse Knight Gavri? He patrolled the Shadow City all night last night, fighting for the safety of Superbia!"

Gongsun Ce was speechless for a moment, Gaffrey gestured: "Control the volume, knight Yulia."

Yulia took a deep breath and lowered her voice: "Every day, every knight is risking their lives to defend the capital. You can be angry at the injustice and filth in reality, but you have no right to accuse a dutiful old man!"

"—I'm already considered an old man?" Gaffrey opened his mouth.

The old captain looked at his hairline sympathetically, and said in a drawn-out tone, "Oh, Gaffrey...now is not the time for your hair to grow..."

"This has nothing to do with our current topic, Captain!" Gaffrey raised his fingers excitedly, turned his head and cleared his throat, "Ahem... Sorry, what is our current topic?"

Gongsun Ce scratched his head in embarrassment: "Knight patrol... I don't understand. A person has turned into a wild beast, so are all the beasts in Shadow Mist City?"

The old captain nodded regretfully.

"You should be able to guess that the place we live in is not ordinary. This is a residual effect brought about by a giant dragon phenomenon. Under extreme pressure, desire, strong longing, may cause human beings to alienate, become Be a beast."

McCullough pulled a lock of his hair and imitated the beast.

"We call it the Beast of Desire. Before the establishment of the enchantment of the Shadow and Mist, the symptoms of lycanthropy spread all over Albion Island, and everyone has the possibility of turning into a beast. Therefore, our ancestors established this enchantment, It has isolated the influence of the giant dragon phenomenon to a great extent, allowing people to live normally."

"But isolation does not mean a complete solution." Gaffrey took over the conversation, "Many desire beasts and phantoms have been integrated with some kind of... huge, complex, difficult to analyze and extremely threatening systems brought by giant dragons. They cannot be killed completely, but will be resurrected again after a period of time with the help of evil forces.

You should understand that too many desire beasts and eidolons can threaten the stability of the enchantment.They are likely to cross the boundary between the virtual and the real, threatening the real king's capital.This is the meaning of knight patrols, to eliminate threats and protect the capital. "

Gongsun Ce said incredulously, "Again and again? Even... Even if they are many, can't they be killed?"

"This is our duty!" Yulia glared at him.

This is truly a cursed land, haunted by beasts and ghosts since ancient times.People had to pick up swords to fight against it.There is no end to this endless battle. The monsters will come back to life after they die, but the man with the sword will gradually grow old.So they look for those who have the same courage to replace themselves, let the young people take over the old long sword, let the next generation plunge into the fog under the moon, and fight bloody battles with the monsters that their ancestors fought against...

From generation to generation, without end.

The anger in Gongsun Ce's heart suddenly faded, replaced by an emotion mixed with self-blame and guilt.He whispered, "Sorry, I..."

"Your anger is justified, child." The old leader felt the same way, "No one with integrity will remain unmoved after facing that scene."

"I just... I don't think this should be done!" Gongsun Ce said annoyedly, "You are impermanent magicians! The Light Knights have two world-creating magicians, don't you plan to change this situation?!"

"Because we have great power and we already have all the privileges of the society on the inside, it is very difficult for us to intervene in the normal operation of the society on the outside." The old head said seriously, "Power, children, the abuse of power, more than All errors in the system are terrible, because there is no limit to the deterrence of violence, unlike laws that have a clear line.

If I use my power to deter everyone from correcting their behavior, it also means that to a certain extent I ignore the freedom and autonomous will of others.Isn't this not forcing others to fulfill my own will by violence? "

Gongsun Ce said without thinking, "This is a necessary sacrifice!"

"Why? Justice?" Knight McCollough shook his head solemnly, "We can only sacrifice ourselves for justice."

The old knight's expression was so serious that Gongsun Ce couldn't think of rebutting.He knew that what the other party said was correct. If he could wantonly sacrifice the interests and lives of others for a noble goal, what is the difference between the so-called righteous teacher and the evil gangster?

"But...but..." Gongsun Ce sighed, "How about finding a way within the system? Within the scope of the law? Can't even the knight Elandia do it?"

McCollough and Gaffrey looked at each other, with wonderful expressions on their faces.They laughed silently at the same time, laughing so hard that the teacups in their hands were shaking.

"Gentlemen!" Yulia said seriously.

"Ahem!" Gaffrey coughed, leaned towards the young man, and said in a very delicate tone, "Mr. Gongsun, I have to explain to you the feat that impressed the entire kingdom...that is Four years ago, Knight Elandia was just 19 years old, and she is as youthful and fearless as you are now. And, she does intend to do something."

Damn, are you waiting for Elandia to be 23 this year? !

Gongsun Ce suppressed the exclamation that blurted out, and asked, "...what did she do?"

"She conducted a detailed investigation of all the officials in Superbia." Gaffrey emphasized, "Everyone, this is not an exaggeration, but a literal fact. In that terrifyingly detailed report There are me, the head of the regiment, the chief mage, the prime minister, all the ministers, the chief of the Royal Police Agency, and even every grassroots policeman in every branch of the capital. It records everything they have done Illegal actions and corresponding evidence!"

Gongsun Ce opened his mouth wide open without words.He thought to himself what a terrifying file it must be?How many knights would there be in the headquarters of the knight order alone, and how many would there be if the grassroots police were included?What about all the civil servants and ministers?Tens of thousands?One hundred thousand?He didn't dare to continue imagining, he only imagined in units of one hundred thousand.A person's file is at least as thick as a book, and those white papers are enough to physically flood the headquarters of the Knights, and even bury the entire block.

And this is only physical damage, how big is the real impact of this information?Even a young man like him can imagine the result. Once this information is announced, even if only part of it, the uproar caused by it will become a catastrophe that will submerge Superbia and even the entire Morton Kingdom. Tsunami!
Gongsun Ce said unconsciously: "...she is crazy."

"That's what I said at the time." Gaffrey nodded, "Then the knight Elandia went to the palace with her achievements, met the queen, and summoned all the high-level officials of the kingdom. She announced in front of everyone , make this file available to all citizens, and solve the problem in accordance with the law."

Gongsun Ce was really convinced.He now knows that his previous anger was never a big deal.Ordinary angry youths would at most swear a few words verbally, but Elandia got angry and directly checked the capital of a country to the bottom.Even if those capable people do not use force, they are still mighty. If they are really ruthless... they can shake the foundation of the country by themselves!

Gongsun Ce moaned: "Tsunami..."

"Tsunami?" Gaffrey asked back, "The sky is falling apart! The sun and the moon are dark! The sky wheel is about to collapse! I was the first to get the file, and my eyes went dark after reading it. I was half surprised by the strength of my colleagues... ..."

"The other half was surprised that the darkness in the capital was more than ten times worse than our worst expectations." Yulia said with disgust.

The old regiment leader said with a bitter face: "In short, regardless of our position or appearance, all of us are trying our best to persuade the Knight of Dawn not to reveal her achievements. The kingdom is indeed an old building, which has existed for hundreds of years or even All kinds of problems accumulated thousands of years ago, but we all hope to fix this building... instead of kicking it down."

"This, how did you deal with it in the end?" Gongsun Ce asked weakly.

"It was a long and arduous negotiation." Gaffrey looked back with a look on his face. "It took us a lot of effort to persuade the knight Elandia to take part of the law enforcement instead of all the law enforcement. Then we started from the terrible Picking out the people with the worst plots from the sea of ​​files... You can't imagine how shocking it was when all the cabinet ministers and senior civil servants cried bitterly. The Chancellor of the Exchequer wanted to commit suicide by swallowing a gun, so we had to rescue him first, and then Send him to death row."

"In the end, we succeeded in rescuing the collapse of Tianlun into a major earthquake in the kingdom. The whole country was shaken, the political arena was shaken up, and a series of brand-new policies changed almost half of the people in the eastern district." The old team leader said, "following It was the revenge of the 'survivors' against the Knights. All authorities were restricted, and tricky investigations were conducted... The first to bear the brunt was the knight Elandia, who was already the number one member of the Star Council The second seat, it is reasonable to take over as the deputy head, we have even been discussing for a few years to let her be the head of the group."

"However, the personnel transfer has been postponed due to changes in the general environment." The deputy head Gaffrey shrugged, "I still remember the days when I rode a bicycle to work, and I didn't dare to drive anymore."

"It's quite difficult, but also very honorable." The old head of the group said cheerfully.

"Yes, Commander." Gaffrey followed suit.

Yulia drank the tea and said firmly, "She is the person I respect the most so far."

Gongsun Ce nodded, wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.He drank the tea, thanked the three, and walked away in silence and shame.

He walked alone in the ancient castle, and his mood became heavier as he thought about it.Everyone has tried, and Elandia has even done something that big.The East District he saw with his own eyes was the result of several rectifications, but it was still very bad, still very bad.

He didn't like Situ Yi and his troupe, but he had to admit that what the man said made sense, and that extremely pessimistic idea seemed correct... right.

"Ace, are you back?"

"……what."

Gongsun Ce raised his head and saw his eldest brother looking at him suspiciously.Mo Yuankai was walking out of a door, holding a pencil in his hand, as if he had just finished paperwork.He should be making blueprints for repairing the armor.

"Brother." He said, "In an age as vast as the sea, is each of us as tiny as a speck of dust?"

Mo Yuankai put down his pencil.

"That's right, Ah Ce. You think there are more than 60 billion people on the earth, and you are not as small as a speck of dust in this world."

"Then what's the point of what we're doing?"

Mo Yuankai said in surprise, "Hey, are you doing this again?"

"What do you mean come again?"

"Didn't I say it many times three years ago? Of course, a person's power is limited, but if you do something, there will always be a change. Isn't a huge change the accumulation of small actions?" Mo Yuankai Pat him on the shoulder, "Dust can shine even if you work hard!"

Gongsun Ce remembered that they had had similar conversations before.When Mo Yuankai first started to engage in heroic activities, he stood by and said it was useless, and the general environment should be rotten or rotten.The eldest brother smiled and said how do you know it's useless?have you triedEven if we can help one person, our efforts are meaningful!

Then he continued to do this day by day, from a second disease in the eyes of everyone to a hero admired by everyone.

"I reckon you had some bad things happen to you today. But you've been helpful anyway, haven't you?"

Gongsun Ce scratched his head thinking of the little boy who was almost wronged.

"That's right, big brother." He smiled, "After all, dust can also shine."

He didn't disturb his friend's work anymore, turned around and left.The mood is still heavy, but a lot lighter.That was something he knew before, and he just realized it again, a little deeper than before.

Perhaps the general environment cannot be changed immediately, but this does not prevent the motes from living their lives well.

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Gongsun Ce found the Dawn Knight in front of the office of the Eastern District Public Security Management Office.Elandia held a stack of paper documents, which seemed to be a report that had just been written.

"Oh my God." Gongsun Ce moaned, "You hand in the documents yourself?"

"Yes." Elandia said.

"Damn it, can you be such an idiot as a World Creation Envoy?!" Gongsun Ce snatched the report, "Who is it for? I'll go!"

Elandia looked at him inexplicably: "The second desk on the left hand side after entering the door, Knight Kuran. Thank you."

The knight Kuran was a dark-skinned young man with an honest face. It took Gongsun Ce a few minutes to convince him that he was not a suspicious person from outside and was just running errands for a friend.After handing in the documents and going out, he saw the Dawn Knight waiting in the corridor.

"Well, just." Gongsun Ce wiped his nose, and just about to say something, his stomach let out a hungry cry.He said awkwardly: "...Are you hungry? I'll treat you to lunch."

He cursed himself inwardly.How fucking stupid.It was about the worst opening line he could have imagined.He didn't even have a wallet with him.

"Thank you, Mr. Gongsun. But you don't have to."

There was no emotion in Elandia's response, and it was as businesslike as reporting to a colleague. "Look, we..." Gongsun Ce tried to struggle in embarrassment, and heard the second part of Miss Knight's words.

"I'll treat you to a guest."

(End of this chapter)