Worlds’ Apocalypse Online - Chapter 200
Chapter 200: The Emperor
After meeting up with Zhang Ying Hao, they went back together.
“How’s the President?” Zhang Ying Hao asked.
“He’s safe”
Zhang Ying Hao also breathed out in relief and asked: “What you did just now, was that a God’s Chosen Skill?”
“What do you mean?” Gu Qing Shan asked back.
“I mean how you flew in the sky after crashing out the window” Zhang Ying Hao explained.
“That’s not really flying, at most it could be considered a hovering trick”
“You call that only a trick? Do you think I was born yesterday or something?”
“It’s really just a trick ——you want to learn? I can teach you”
“Of course I do! This is flying we’re talking about”
“It’ll probably take a really long time for you to be able to do that”
“No matter how long it takes, as long as I’ll be able to fly in the end, I’ll definitely keep training!” Zhang Ying Hao excitedly said.
“Now that you mentioned it, I can probably use that as a selling point of Protector of the Planet”
They made it back to the small reception room.
Anna greeted them and asked: “What happened outside?”
“They tried to assassinate the President, but it failed”
“Then what do we do now?”
“Let’s wait, the President said he has something else to talk with me about, we’ll leave after that”
“Fine”
Seeing how Anna was hesitant about saying something, Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but ask: “What is it? If you need something just say it”
“Before we go, can you come with me to meet the Fuxi Emperor and Empress?” Anna then asked.
Gu Qing Shan just now realized.
Anna had just requested the Fuxi Empire to take her in, the Empire also made a world-wide official statement about it. If she arbitrarily ran away so soon, that’ll be the same as slapping the Fuxi Emperor’s face.
If this wasn’t dealt with appropriately, a lot of problems would arise.
“No problem, we can go now if you want” Gu Qing Shan said.
Anna smiled brightly as she looked at him.
A few minutes later, Gu Qing Shan followed Anna to meet the Fuxi Empire’s Emperor and Empress.
The Confederate’s International Conference Center was an oval-shaped structure, the inner ring of the structure was outdoors, where a few giant old trees were planted together with a large field of grass.
Fuxi Empire’s Emperor wasn’t residing at the Freedom Hotel currently, instead he built a temporary resting area here.
From his own words, “freedom” was a bad word that made him angry.
To have freedom means the country was not under control.
Normal citizens were nothing but headless sheeps that didn’t know where they should be heading.
If every sheep was given the right to freedom and can run wildly wherever it wanted, then the herd wasn’t a herd anymore at that point.
And a country’s Royal family are the herd’s shepherds.
The shepherd’s role was to guide the herd of sheep forward, make sure they didn’t fall under any danger and keep living their peaceful lives.
Because of that, the word “freedom” contains nothing but malice and danger wrapped under a pretty coat.
It was because of that, that the Emperor refused to stay in the Freedom Hotel.
The Fuxi Empire’s Emperor and Empress brought over 1000 servants and subordinates to stay at the outdoor inner ring of the conference center, having raised a few large tents.
When Gu Qing Shan and Anna arrived, a ball was taking place here.
Exciting songs with upbeat rhythm were being played one after another without any pause in between.
Under the large tent, there were people performing fire-eating, others doing animal circustry, 80 or so dancers were moving to the beat, 16 people formed an orchestra, using different instruments together with the dancers, doing their best to perform.
“Over there” Anna pointed at a certain direction.
Following where she pointed at, Gu Qing Shan saw one man and woman, sitting in the middle of the people like bright stars in the sky.
The man was wearing a luxurious baggy coat, wearing a solid gold crown with twelve corners, having been engraved with 5-colored jewels each.
In his hand was a scepter, also made of solid gold. On top of the scepter was a human skull, as the skull was looking forward, staring.
The skull belonged to the Fuxi Empire’s founding Emperor.
When the founding Emperor died, he had asked for his skull to be combined with his own scepter, coated with a layer of gold and passed down to later generations of emperors as the Royal Scepter.
This was meant to symbolize that even though he was already gone, he was still watching each and every one of his descendants, to judge whether or not they were being a suitable Emperor.
This was the origin of the famous Fuxi Empire’s Royal Scepter.
The man wearing the crown had a very plain face, but you could recognize him immediately even if he was in the middle of a crowd.
Because no normal person could ever imitate the expression of coldness he held.
Despite how merry the entire tent was, the man stayed absolutely calm without a single smile on his face.
He sat there very nonchalantly, but he exuded a feeling of sitting on a towering throne that nobody can simply reach out to get to.
The Empress sat beside him, carefully peeling the fruits for him while talking about interesting rumors in the Confederate, occasionally looking up to glance at his face.
No one dared to sit around where they sat.
Everyone was either standing, bowing while doing their best to smile, or kneeling on the ground.
Gu Qing Shan and Anna headed towards the Emperor and Empress.
“The Fuxi Empire had only just announced their protection of me, if I were to leave right now, the Emperor will definitely be angry, and aunty won’t have it easy” Anna said in a low voice.
Anna’s aunty was the Fuxi Empress.
“Then what do we do?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
“I’ll be using the simplest method to resolve this situation, however, I’ll need your cooperation” Anna glanced at him.
“Of course I’ll cooperate with you” Gu Qing Shan said without any hesitation.
“Then…” Anna bit her lip, “as the price for me joining your group, you’ll do as I say for now, that way there won’t be any hostility”
“No problems” Gu Qing Shan replied.
He can understand at least that much.
There were many things to consider while doing diplomatic relations, and Fuxi’s Emperor was known to be a prideful person. Not only was Anna currently under his protection, but she also had blood relations with the Empress, so the complication only got increased. It was best that a person who didn’t know what he was doing didn’t arbitrarily do anything on his own.
It was best to just leave this to Anna.
While he was thinking, a pair of warm and soft small hands took his hand and led him forward.
Pulling him through the crowd of people, Anna headed straight for where the Fuxi Emperor and Empress was.
Right at this moment, everything seems to have changed.
When Anna took his hand, although the music was still playing and everyone was still making merry, Gu Qing Shan could still feel everyone’s gazes locked straight onto him.
He felt like a model who suddenly appeared on the runway, having no place to sit or hide, while everyone was scrutinizing every little detail on his body.
Of course, the Emperor also noticed this.
He frowned as he evaluated Gu Qing Shan.
As the Emperor moved ever so slightly, the Empress also noticed the changed atmosphere, following the Emperor’s line of sight as her eyes also evaluated Gu Qing Shan.
Although she was a bit surprised, she quickly smiled and nodded to greet the two of them.
Since Anna brought Gu Qing Shan with her, everyone made a path for them to head straight to the Emperor and Empress.
Anna pushed Gu Qing Shan in front of the Emperor and Empress, then kneeled down as per etiquette and said: “Your Majesty the Emperor and Empress, this is my boyfriend”
Aside from the orchestra and dancers who weren’t allowed to stop, everyone else stopped what they were doing.
This time, they didn’t bother to hide their gazes anymore and locked tightly on Gu Qing Shan, seemingly wanting to see through him.
This is Anna’s boyfriend.
The Holy Empire’s princess, Anna Medici’s boyfriend!
The Emperor sat still, unmoved.
The Empress glanced at the Emperor, moved her mouth like she wanted to say something, but stopped herself.
Seeing how the Emperor’s brows knitted even tighter, having no intention of speaking, Anna quickly added.
“Ah, right, his name is Gu Qing Shan”
“Gu… Qing Shan?”
The Emperor suddenly stopped, seemingly recalling something.
“That is a very familiar name”
He looked over at one of his officials.
The official’s sight hadn’t left Gu Qing Shan even one, he quickly nodded: “That’s correct sire, it’s him. The Confederate’s number one Mech scientist, the creator of the newest core protocol technology, the first person who found the Man Eater and Man Killer Fiend Viruses, as well as the Confederate’s Military Academy’s special professor ——-although he has yet to go there once”
“Ah? You’ve been specially invited, so why don’t you go to the Confederate’s Military Academy to work?” the Emperor looked straight at Gu Qing Shan and questioned.
“I’m currently busy with too many things so I haven’t had the chance to go” Gu Qing Shan answered.
“Busy?” the Emperor glanced at Anna.
Anna rolled her eyes and looked away without hesitation, seemingly wanting to express that it had nothing to do with her.
But with how well everyone knew her personality, to be able to make such an action clearly indicated that Gu Qing Shan was really busy with something.
“You’re a scientist ——-then let me ask you, the Freedom Confederate and Fuxi Empire, which one of these two countries are currently developing better?” the Emperor questioned further.
Anna was a bit nervous.
She didn’t think the Emperor would be so belligerent, every sentence he spoke was sharp like a blade, not leaving any sort of dignity for the other party.
She held Gu Qing Shan’s hand, wanted to signal something, but Gu Qing Shan had already pinched her hand lightly and indicated with his eyes that there was nothing to worry about.
“Fuxi is better” Gu Qing Shan answered.
“Ah? Why so?” the Emperor had a look of intrigue.
This young man didn’t look like the sort to butter up someone, so what he said was definitely not empty words to make him pleased.
“That’s what the statistics of the past 10 years has indicated” Gu Qing Shan answered very simply.
“Do scientists like you only look at statistics and nothing else? Wouldn’t you usually try and preserve a bit of dignity for your Freedom Confederate and at least say that the two countries were not that far apart?”
The Emperor wasn’t pleased with his answer, so he pursued further.
“Science, as well as the very essence of science itself is to see the world as it truly is, not to say things that please others”
The frown on the Emperor’s brows suddenly lessened, the coldness on his face receded a bit, as the look in his eyes contained a small smile.
Then he suddenly burst into laughter.
With his laugh, the tense atmosphere seemed to have loosened up, as the air began to circulate, the music continued as background for everyone to make merry.
The Emperor looked at his Empress.
“What an interesting young man isn’t he?” the Empress smiled as she spoke.
“Hm, not just interesting, but also not simple as well” the Emperor looked at Gu Qing Shan as if he was looking at a cutting edge Mobile Mech.
He was very pleased with this young man.
Scientists should all be like this, not wasting their mind on pointless things.
The Confederate had been ahead of the Empire for dozens of years thanks to Impartial Goddess, after how hard the Empire tried to almost catch up, the Confederate suddenly got more advanced cutting edge Mech technology.
According to the estimated data, this set of technology leads ahead of the Fuxi Empire by at least 15 years.
And all of them were made by this young man right now.
From the look of it, his and Anna’s relationship was also exceptional.
“From what I can see, being the special professor of the Confederate’s Military Academy is nothing special, so it’s correct for you not to go”
The Emperor looked straight at Gu Qing Shan, then slowly continued: “If you were instead at Fuxi Empire, I would’ve given you the title and treatment of the Royal Scientist straight away, much better than some random title of professor”
