Before the collapse of civilization, kiss Mebius at the beginning

The old man was very happy.

"I've finished reading it."

Little Karin was very open-minded. After she finished reading the information on the envelope, she put it back in her pocket. She sat on the edge of the roof, her legs still shaking restlessly, and said,

"Brother Qianjie, you've finished listening too... Do you think I should listen to my mother, give up the mountain village, and become the Tsar?"

"Tsar... Emperor..."

Qianjie has been living in the mountain village since he fell. The person who usually talks to him most is little Karin. She has not received any formal education, so she doesn't quite understand the deep meaning behind the word "Tsar".

But from Karin's tone, he guessed that this was probably a very powerful position... so powerful that he might not have time to take care of his personal life. And from the letter she just read, it seemed that no one except Karin could take this position.

So, Qianjie pondered for a long time before speaking:

"Woman...if...you are willing...then...pick up your strength and carry...the thousand difficulties...if...you are not willing...then...put down...your strength and live well...in the present. Make your own choice. No one will blame you."

"Make your own choice..."

Little Karin scratched her face, then looked at Qianjie and asked,

"But I want to hear Qianjie's opinion just now."

"...Me?"

Qianjie scratched his head and said intermittently,

"Woman...I...don't know you...but...just from the bottom of my heart, I hope that the people around me are better. Instead of...being trapped in the mountains...for my whole life."

"Is that so...so that's what Brother Qianjie thinks..."

Little Karin bit her finger, then suddenly raised her hands, then jumped off the roof and landed on the soft snow.

"...Hey!"

Qianjie shouted,

"Where are you...going?"

"To tell everyone my choice!"

Little Karin said as she ran,

"To tell everyone my choice! I'm going to take back my power, and then build a big house for everyone in the village! Let everyone live a better life, and no longer have to worry about food, drink and livelihood!"

"It's still...snowing!"

"This little snow won't freeze me!"

At that time, Qianjie stretched out his hand to Karin's back, but finally let go helplessly.

Before he ran far, Karin ran back and shouted to Qianjie on the roof:

"Brother Qianjie! Can you wait for me here? I'll come back to find you after I get my power back. At that time, I'll be the first to build a big house for you! Goose, goose, goose..."

Before the girl finished speaking, she was amused by herself, and then ran away very quickly.

This woman...

Qianjie shook his head helplessly again. What he himself did not notice was that at this moment, under his charred face that could never be washed clean, the corners of his mouth actually raised a subtle arc.

That kind of arc of smile seemed to represent... [peace of mind].

However, Qianjie would not have thought that this separation between him and little Karin would be the beginning of all sins.

Little Karin, who was only 16 years old at the time, would not have thought that the so-called free choice did not exist from the beginning... It was just a... complete lie.

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"... Then?"

Seeing Karin's story suddenly paused, the old blacksmith, who was listening to the past with many villagers, asked in a strange way.

"... Shut up!"

The shrewd old village chief was the first to notice Karin's abnormality. He immediately kicked the old blacksmith and then said with a smile:

"It's okay, it's okay... I just didn't expect that our little Karin, who I haven't seen for so many years, turned out to be a high-ranking official. This is a good thing, a good thing! A high-ranking official has actually appeared in our village!

Little Karin, you've talked so much, you must be thirsty, right? It's okay, it's not too tight, haha, I'll ask my granddaughter to pour some tea, and we can talk about something else... Hey! Jesse! Go and pour your sister Karin a few more cups of hot tea!"

Hearing this, Xu Ziling's eyes changed slightly. If he understood correctly... Karin's story was a disguised recognition of her current status as the Tsar. But... why did this Tsar become the so-called "high-ranking official" in the mouth of the old village chief?

Qianjie back then might have suffered from limited culture and did not understand the heavy price hidden in the word Tsar, but wouldn't these native Suzhou villagers know it? It's like the people of Shenzhou don't know what the emperor means.

The thought is just as ridiculous.

Then... could it be that he didn't want the topic to become awkward, so he deliberately found an excuse?

The old village chief's intelligence has exceeded Xu Ziling's expectations.

"Oh..."

On the other side, the village chief's granddaughter, who was originally acting as a spectator with her peers, heard the words and immediately fell into a bear-like face, and then went to make tea for the guests with a happy face. 1

"No... no need..."

Karin immediately stood up and stepped forward to hold little Jesse's hand, then took a deep breath, but when the words came to her lips, she found that she seemed to be unable to say them again.

"Excuse me for interrupting you."

Xu Ziling's eyes changed slightly, and he said,

"Miss Karin, if you are not feeling well, you can choose to take a rest first. There is no need to force yourself to tell the truth to everyone now... Or, you can choose to tell the truth to a few people closest to you first, listen to their feelings first, and then expand it to everyone."

"Is that so... OK..."

Karin closed her eyes, nodded slightly, and then looked at Qianjie and said,

"Then... Mr. Qianjie, please follow me."

"... Me?"

Qianjie pointed at himself with a puzzled look.

"Yeah."

Karin nodded, then walked out of the room and said,

"In the village, you are the only one who will not take care of me in every way because of my identity. If someone can provide me with practical and useful advice, then that person should be you..."

"Oh."

Qianjie nodded, then got up and followed.

The old village chief opened his mouth, but in the end, he just sighed silently and muttered to himself:

"This girl... has really not changed at all..."

Karin's footsteps paused.

Then, she turned around, looked at Xu Ziling, and said:

"If you are interested... you can also come and listen to... Bishop Xu."

"Hmm?"

Xu Ziling narrowed his eyes. He would call himself an assistant and a bishop in this world. Although there is only a difference of one tone, the meanings they represent are very different.

The former is just an assistant to an ordinary biology professor, while the latter is the Five Fire-Chasing Permanents who can lead the entire Americas...

Is this... that he has decided to take the same attitude as himself?

Just think of it as for Qianjie, go and listen.

Thinking so, Xu Ziling also got up and followed.

At this moment, the sun was shining brightly.

But the snow outside the mountain village... was getting heavier and heavier.

"Actually, you should understand what I'm saying..."

Walking on the snow, the pure white snowflakes were mixed in Karin's hair, and under the refraction of light, they looked exceptionally beautiful.

She reached out her hand, took a snowflake, and said,

"In fact, my mother didn't give me any so-called choice back then... After I left Mr. Qianjie, her people arrived and forced me onto the carriage. I was forced to leave the mountain village and go to Kemosi City...

At that time, the Soviet Union was in turmoil due to some wrong laws and was suspected by people, and my mother had been secretly manipulating for a long time for me to take the throne... So, when I returned to Kemosi City and made it clear that I was the daughter of the Tsar, I became the Tsar of the Soviet Union without any dispute... Of course, it was temporary."

Xu Ziling looked at Qianjie who didn't know what to say, and said:

"I can only say that it's not unexpected... I hope you don't keep this matter in your heart, it will drag you down."

"Well... I understood this truth a long time ago... Thank you."

Karin nodded slightly, and then said,

"Let me continue... Back then, my mother... That woman... She never thought of asking me to make the choice of staying in the mountain village or returning to the city from the beginning, and she never thought of really asking me to be the Tsar of Suzhou. Everything she did was just for herself.

After my father died... She was always craving for power. In order to get the power she wanted, she remarried. I regarded this as her betrayal of my father... She strongly recommended unreasonable laws and corrupt officials, which was a betrayal of the people...

Finally, she made various beautifications in my letters, concealed various facts, and after taking me back to Kemosi City, she betrayed me even more... "

"I would like to ask, is such a person worthy of being called a 'mother'?"

Kalin said, turning to look at Xu Ziling and Qianjie, and said,

"So, I planned for three years, I killed her, and overthrew all her forces... This was the first three years. "

Faced with the matricide hidden under Karin's calm tone,

Xu Ziling and Qianjie looked at each other, neither of them had much emotion.

Qianjie even imitated Xu Ziling's previous behavior, holding his chin with one hand and said:

"I can only say that it's not surprising... From what you said, that woman really deserves to be killed. I believe you are not lying."

As he said that, Qianjie stretched out his hand and pounded his shoulder hard, making a banging sound.

"Thank you..."

Karin nodded sincerely and expressed her gratitude to Qianjie and Xu Ziling. The reason why she didn't dare to say this in front of the villagers was that she was worried that the villagers would do something extreme because of her matricide.

"Then I'll continue. The elder sister in the village may not be able to accept it, but Mr. Qianjie has a simple personality, and Bishop Xu is the only bystander who has nothing to do with the whole incident. There is an old saying in Shenzhou, called 'those involved are confused, and those who are on the sidelines are clear'. I believe that if it were you, you would be able to listen to the whole story and give me really useful suggestions."

Kalin said, and came to a house that seemed to have been in disrepair for a long time. She pushed it open, and the snow in the yard of the house was already taller than her.

Kalin showed a helpless smile, she raised her hand, and dots of blue lines spread along the blood vessels of her right hand. Wherever the light passed, the snowflakes melted.

Qianjie also realized at this time that this old house... was the old house that the villagers gave him back then, not the old house that he and the little Karin at that time repaired together.

Wherever the blue light passed, the ice and snow melted. Perhaps out of some Wen Xiao's psychology, Karin used the ice and snow to build a snowman in the yard of the old house. The snowman was not very delicate, but it could make people feel the real warmth and the girl's heart.

Controlling ice and snow, driving extreme cold... this is indeed the ability of the upper-level Honkai beast Pavanti.

"It's a very convenient ability, isn't it?"

Karin said, taking off the gloves she had been wearing since she appeared. Qianjie noticed that the blood vessels in Karin's hands turned dark blue without exception. If the ability to control ice and snow is activated, this dark blue color will also glow.

Qianjie's eyes changed slightly, and then he said:

"Woman...your hand..."

"Well...this time it's not the ability brought to me by the Tsar's bloodline."

Karin shook her head and said,

"It's some side effects caused by Professor Mobius's fusion surgery on me...Of course, compared with this power, these side effects are so small that they can be ignored. If there is a chance, I still have to thank the professor. But now...well, I can only ask Assistant Xu to convey my words of thanks after returning."

Hearing this, Xu Ziling nodded, indicating that he understood.

"Mobius..."

Qianjie muttered the name, and for some reason, he suddenly felt a little itchy.

"Pah."

After Xu Ziling grabbed Qianjie's hand, he cast a serious look at Qianjie and said,

"Mr. Qianjie... be careful."

"Hmm..."

After being caught by Xu Ziling, Qianjie also scratched his head strangely. The itchy feeling just now seemed not an illusion, but he really didn't know who Mobius was. Was he possessed?

I don't understand

I just don't want to think about it anymore.

"Thank you for understanding me. I will continue with my previous topic."

Kalin smiled and nodded to Qianjie and Xu Ziling, then slowly came to the stone table in the courtyard. She still remembered that this stone table was polished bit by bit by Qianjie six years ago...

"Think about it... It's been six years... In the first three years, I tried my best to overthrow my mother. In the second three years, I tried my best to consolidate the power of Suguo... Why?

Because in the three years from the age of 16 to 18, I was controlled by my mother, but I also inevitably saw the current situation of the vast land of Suguo. I saw... This world is not just a mountain village... There is a second mountain village, a third mountain village, and even countless mountain villages.

Some of them live a life isolated from the world like everyone in the village, and some live a life oppressed by countless class laws, living a life of poverty and endless poverty on this land that should be rich...

Once, I was just a temporary tsar, and my power was taken away by my mother, and I could do nothing. But now, that woman is dead, and I have become the only Soviet tsar on this land, their emperor...

In this case, I feel that I have the reason and obligation to bear their thousands of sufferings on my own body, so that no one in this world will be robbed..."