The system was silent for a while and said: [I did not expect this situation.]

Ji Ling: [He shouldn't have appeared here now. Now that the plot has such a big change, you didn't expect it?]

The system is in a disadvantage: [In this way, I'll check what's going on, you can calm him down first.]

Ji Ling:【…】

Ji Ling knew that the system was unreliable, so he could only adapt to the situation. He pretended to naturally pull his hand back from Carlos's hand, quietly carried it behind his back, showing a nervous expression, and said uneasy: "Uncle Carlos, this gift is too expensive, I can't accept it."

Ji Ting also came back from the shock just now and said in a deep voice: "I have received your kindness on behalf of the dog son, but please take back the gift."

Carlos' deep brown pupils were filled with a faint smile, his tone was soothing but unquestionable persistence, and he said calmly: "Today is Xiaoling's gift for coming-of-age. I am also his elder. What is the purpose of giving him a mere planet?"

This is called a mere planet? It’s not those garbage stars that don’t even have names.

Ji Ting frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, he slowly said, "There are all juniors here, why don't we go in and chat?"

Ji Ting was not sure about Carlos's purpose and didn't understand why he suddenly showed goodwill to Ji Ling. Is he trying to bribe and win over him? Carlos insisted so much that he could not continue to refuse in public, so as not to make people laugh. It would be bad if he caused some unnecessary rumors, so he deliberately invited Carlos in and talked alone.

Carlos smiled and nodded, looked at Ji Ling deeply, then turned around and went in with Ji Ting.

When Ji Ling saw him leave, he found that there was a layer of sweat in his vest. Carlos' appearance just now really caught him off guard.

Speaking of the main characters in the book, Carlos is the one he is most wary of. Although this person's every move is elegant and polite, he seems to be a flawless noble nobleman, but he is the most sarcastic of all people, with a typical smile that hides a cold-blooded and black-hearted.

As the emperor of the empire, the male protagonist Jing Sui is arrogant and indifferent, but at most he is just disdainful of himself. No matter how he jumps up and down, he has never had any intention of killing and is too lazy to care about him.

Although the protagonist was embarrassed by Ning Yu several times, he was a noble and self-reliant white lotus character, an open and honest gentleman. Ji Ling was not worried that he would take revenge on him, and even bullying him was dissatisfied.

The villain Marshal Brandon, the second-ranked marshal, is Jing Sui's friend and like-minded companion. He is an open and honest soldier. Even though he hates and despises himself, he will never be able to play tricks behind his back.

Strictly speaking, Brandon cannot be said to be a villain. He just had some opposition to Jing Sui in the emotional drama, because he had a crush on Ning Yu and was a affectionate male second, but even though he was later snatched away from Jing Sui, he did not turn against Jing Sui.

The Speaker of the No. 3 of the villain, Wen Yan, is still just an ordinary member of parliament at this moment. In the book, he will be Ning Yu's friend. This person's deep mind is both righteous and evil, which makes people a little puzzled. Although he betrayed him for Ning Yu later, that matter fell under his expectations.

Only the villain number one Grand Duke Carlos, who is a smiling old fox on the surface, but in fact, he uses any means to achieve his goal. In his eyes, anyone is just a pawn. He doesn't know how to die if he accidentally dies. He didn't provoke him in his previous life, and he was inexplicably exploited once and almost lost his life.

I don’t know what kind of wind I was trying to send such a gift this time, but this didn’t happen last time.

Ji Ling was worriedly thinking about what was wrong, which led to a deviation in the plot. At this time, the long-lost system finally arrived late.

Ji Ling said quietly: [If you come back later, you won’t have to come back.]

System: [Why?]

Ji Ling: [Because I guess I had been killed at that time and had a resurrection point:)]

system:【……】

Ji Ling: [So, did you find out what went wrong?]

The system is a little guilty: [Sorry, because the world has crashed once and the database has failed, it is not possible to determine the cause of the Carlos exception.]

He thought for a while and added: [It is possible that after the world collapsed, some changes that we did not expect occurred, which caused a butterfly effect. But it doesn't matter, your task remains unchanged, and you can go back as long as you can complete the task.]

Yes, why do I think this answer is perfunctory? Who knows how much the plot has changed? Can I still complete the task?

But even the system didn't know the reason, Ji Ling had no choice but to hope that the plot would not change much. Fortunately, he was still familiar with Carlos and was not completely unprepared.

Carlos and Jing Sui had disagreements in politics and had always been ambitious to replace Jing Sui's position. He did everything with a purpose and could not come specifically to attend his coming-of-age ceremony. Today, it was probably for his father Ji Ting.

The Ji family is an old aristocrat with a strong foundation and has a great say among the imperial aristocrats. They are representatives of the neutral faction. It is understandable that Carlos wants to win over the Ji family. In short, this complex power struggle will be left to his father Ji Ting to deal with.

It is better to focus on completing tasks yourself.

As long as Jing Sui can get along well with Ning Yuhe, he will be able to go home by himself!

Ji Ling stayed in the banquet hall for a while, feeling a little tired of dealing with it, so he found an excuse to go out for some breathing.

Because he had already done a mission, Ji Ling was as familiar with this place as his home. The garden behind the banquet hall had a good view. Ji Ling slipped out and climbed up a tree, lay comfortably on the trunk, looking up at the stars shining around the night sky with the Emperor Stars. The nine stars exuded a colorful and beautiful luster, like colorful gems hanging from the sky.

Those are the nine artificial satellites of the Emperor Star, each with the size of a small planet. Although it looks so beautiful and harmless from here, it is actually a war weapon that can destroy the world, enough to resist any attack and turn all enemies into dust. It is an important deterrent to protect the security of the capital Emperor Star and maintain the rule of the empire.

Ji Ling looked at the sky in a daze. The conflict between Carlos and Jing Sui has been around for a long time. It has to start with the setting of this book.

The world view of this book is very huge. It is said that after the sixth scientific and technological revolution, humans on Earth officially entered the field of space and entered a stage of comprehensive evolution. After thousands of years of development and expansion, they have now completely become the overlord of the universe. Smart life led by humans has created a huge national regime, commanding countless star fields, which is today's empire.

Faced with various intelligent life and powerful species in the universe, the reason why humans can gain a foothold and have their current status is inseparable from a great invention.

That is - gene evolution agent.

Facing the vast universe, humans are unwilling to be so small. Although they can use external forces, their fragility still makes it difficult for them to survive in the universe, unable to cope with various harsh living environments, and appear vulnerable to other species.

Therefore, human beings have never given up on developing their own potential.

After countless experiments and sacrifices, thousands of years ago, humans finally discovered a special substance in the universe. The gene evolution agent that was finally synthesized using this substance can be widely used in more than 99.99% of humans, and has completely opened the door to human evolution.

Through continuous evolution, reproduction and integration from generation to generation, today's human beings are no longer the same.

Although the appearance doesn't look much different from before, its powerful body and super mental power are completely different from before... Compared with when I was on Earth, it is almost a new species.

But does a high degree of civilization and evolution eliminate contradictions and inequality between humans? No.

On the contrary, this evolution has made the class gap and contradictions between humans increasingly larger.

The initial first generation of gene evolution agents was difficult to make because they were expensive. Although they were generally applicable to all humans, their rare output could only supply a very small number of people. These humans gained stronger strength through evolution, and stronger strength brought higher status. Moreover, the children born from intermarriage between them were born with stronger physical constitution than ordinary humans... Gradually, a higher evolutionary class was born, which was also the prototype of the imperial nobles today.

The first generation of evolutionists gradually realized the huge benefits, began to control the manufacturing and use of gene evolution agents, and firmly controlled the top science and technology, and gradually controlled the fate of mankind.

The stronger the stronger the weaker the weaker the stronger.

Through thousands of years of development, the evolutionist class has gradually built up a new high race with a steady stream of cosmic resources, which is completely different from ordinary humans, that is, today's "imperial nobles".

Now there is no more existence in the universe that can threaten the empire. In order to maintain their absolute dominance, the nobles completely monopolized the development and use of genetic evolution agents. Even for the lowest-level evolution agent, ordinary civilians need to pay a sky-high fee to purchase it. As for the high-level evolution agents, it is completely prohibited to be sold to civilians.

The nobles continued to evolve themselves and only intermarry among the same classes. Although the stronger the evolution, the more difficult it is for humans to give birth to offspring, they were unwilling to intermarry with civilians, believing that this would tarnish the genes of their offspring.

Discrimination and inequality that were once hidden under hypocrisy and fairness have gradually revealed its hideous and cruel side.

In Ji Ling's view, the nobles who live on the Emperor Star are almost equivalent to immortals living in the fairy world. If this continues, thousands or tens of years later, they should not be called imperial nobles, but imperial gods!

Ji Ling felt that he could write a paper, which was called "On the Birth of the Gods of the Universe".

In the current empire, ordinary civilians are unable to evolve into the sky. If they had not become rich overnight, the only thing that could change their destiny would be God's will.

In peace, there is actually undercurrent. The monopoly of the powerful and the privileges of gene evolution and the privileges they possess have gradually aroused dissatisfaction among the people. Some people are unwilling to surrender to the increasingly corrupt and degenerate nobles, and even have a rebel army to challenge the rule of the empire. However, under the powerful suppression of the empire and the control of public opinion, the number of rebels is not large.

Ji Ling can also understand that for most people in the empire, they have a peaceful and comfortable life. Even if there is some inequality in society, no one is willing to give up their lives to fight against a powerful empire. Throughout history, all revolutions have been forced to resist in desperate situations. For the current empire people, they are far from reaching this point. Even in the society where Ji Ling is located, wealth is also monopolized in the hands of a few people, but inequality is not so obvious.

However, as the emperor of the empire, Jing Sui saw not only the prosperity of the empire, but also the huge hidden dangers. Although the current resistance army seems weak, the birth of the resistance army shows that the spark will eventually become a prairie fire without control.

The empire's powerful people have too much power. Excessive power without being checked and balanced will inevitably lead to the depravity. They ignore human lives and are superior. Even ordinary people are inferior races in their eyes. They take slavery for granted, and they uncover the bright and beautiful cloak. There is a dark and ugly truth inside. They blindly suppress any existence that dares to disobey them.

The inevitable result of wanton suppression is resistance.

Once this continues, a revolution will break out sooner or later. Jing Sui does not want to see this day happening, nor does it want to see the foundation of the country shaken... Even gods will fall one day, let alone just a group of corrupt nobles? How many higher civilizations have fallen?

No one can last forever.

In order to change this situation, Jing Sui advocated reducing the price of gene evolution agents, further increasing the rights of civilians, and gradually weakening the gap between nobles and civilians. He hoped to build a more united and powerful empire by increasing the per capita strength of the entire country. He believed that the strength of a country was not feasible to rely solely on a few people, and the majority of ordinary civilians was a force that should not be underestimated.

However, Jing Sui's actions violated the interests of most powerful people. They were unwilling to give up their rights, giving those untouchables the opportunity to be on par with them, or even step on their heads.

The powerful people who opposed the Jing Sui Dynasty followed the leader of the Grand Duke of Carlos and opposed the Jing Sui Dynasty in political views.

Carlos believes that there is no need to change the status quo. All of this is the result of the survival of the fittest in nature. Lower humans do not deserve the qualification to be on par with them.

In their eyes, those ordinary people are like ants on the ground. They have clearly given them a peaceful and generous life and protected them from being violated by foreign races, but they are still clamoring for more and have no gratitude. This is an irresistible greed in human nature and should not be indulged.

Carlos advocated a bloody suppression of the rebels to maintain the absolute dominance of the empire, and there was no need to compromise with some insatiable ants.

The two sides fought openly and secretly for this.

Ji Ling felt that this matter was not something that he could get involved with, not to mention that he did not have such a deep sense of immersion in this world. He only cared about how to play his role well and complete the task and go home.

No matter how huge or real this world is, it is not his original world, nor where he wants to stay.

Thinking of this, he sighed rarely, put his hands behind his head and looked at the starry sky in a daze. Suddenly his ears moved. He heard someone calling his name in the distance, as if he were the original owner's playboy friends.

I have been out for a long time, and it is almost time to go back.

Ji Ling sat up, supported his hands, and jumped down from the tree with agility.

As soon as I fell to the ground, I looked up and saw a gentle and handsome middle-aged man standing under the tree - in the shadow, staring at him with a smile. He was so scared that he couldn't stand firm that he almost staggered to the ground! As a result, he just happened to crash into the man's arms.

Carlos looked at the boy who was "putting to his arms and hugging", reached out and gently supported his shoulder, and smiled in a low voice: "Be careful."

Ji Ling thought to himself that this wasn't you scared! He told himself to keep calm and not to panic! Then he raised his eyes from Carlos' arms, showed an innocent and unexpected look, and said, "Uncle Carlos, why are you here?"

Carlos stared at the boy's blue eyes, his eyes fell on his vivid face, and there seemed to be a vague look of complex nostalgia in his eyes. After a while, he said, "Just finished talking to your father, I passed by here to see you..."

He paused halfway through his speech, and a playful curve slightly raised on the corner of his lips, saying in a doting manner: "I just want to see a little guy, and I'm going to stay in the tree until when."

Ji Ling: "..." So you have been watching it for a long time?

Fortunately, he did not have a bad habit of talking to himself. He looked at Carlos' gentle and doting expression and felt an inexplicable sense of terror rising from the bottom of his feet, and his body couldn't help but stiffen slightly.

Carlos noticed Ji Ling's uneasiness and said a little apologetically: "Sorry, did I scare you?"

Ji Ling bit his lower lip and shook his head. He said more and more mistakes in front of this old fox, so he should respond to changes in the same way as he remains unchanged.

However, he saw Carlos's eyes suddenly become darker, as if he was deeply suppressing and restraining something, and his hand pressing on his shoulders also exerted a little force.

Ji Ling couldn't understand Carlos's eyes, but was a little uneasy, as if he was the prey he was staring at. He blinked uneasy and said, "My friend is calling me..."
To be continued...