Chapter 1613 Speaker Vs. Captain!

Tang Dingyuan snorted: "If you want to commit a crime, there is nothing wrong with it. You want to pour dirty water on my head, even though you have made a crime, why bother to ask me!"

Cui Lingfeng looked at him indifferently: "Whether it is a 'crime' or not, we will see the outcome soon, I want to save you some face, let Brother Dingyuan speak for yourself, and give this matter a clean end, But if you insist on resisting ... your daughter has been arrested, and it is the same for her."

Tang Dingyuan's pupils shrank suddenly, and every muscle in his body tensed up. His whole body was like a battleship with full firepower, and he roared: "Cui Lingfeng, it's okay for you to frame me, but if you dare to touch half a hair of my daughter , I will never let you go even if I am a ghost!"

Cui Lingfeng sneered: "Brother Dingyuan, if you really love your daughter so much, you shouldn't have used your daughter's identity and crystal brain as a cover in the first place. This is your own fault, so why put on an outrageous gesture?"

"I don't!"

The safety of his daughter finally made Tang Dingyuan completely out of control. The anxiety, despair and anger of the past few days were all vented out. He seemed to be firmly locked in this corner of the cell. He could only struggle and kneel on one knee and shout at his opponent, " Cui Lingfeng, I am the captain of the Firefly, and my daughter is a teacher at Xinghai University. Even if you are the chairman, you are not qualified to secretly arrest and interrogate us! I am not a traitor, I am not a cultivator, and everything is framed by you. The most shameless frame-up!"

"you have not?"

Cui Lingfeng sneered twice, then stared suddenly, and raised his voice an octave, "You have! You have betrayed a long time ago! You have completely lost confidence in our cause and in the Firefly!"

"You are a complete surrenderist, a defeatist! You have long lost all loyalty to the Star Sea Republic! You don't believe that we can make a comeback with the Firefly, and you don't believe that the battle flag of the Star Sea Republic can fly in the Star Sea again central!"

"If you still have a shred of confidence in the Star Sea Republic, why can't you wait to join the Star Federation? You can surrender to the Star Federation, and of course you can surrender to the Real Human Empire. Anyway, you have to sell your motherland and compatriots for a good deal The price, of course, is to find the richest buyer!"

"Tang Dingyuan, Captain Tang! Do you dare to deny this, do you dare to deny that you have completely lost confidence in the Xinghai Republic?"

These few words, like arrows, pierced Tang Dingyuan's chest fiercely, making Tang Dingyuan's face pale, and even his hair and beard, which were originally tense, seemed to soften in an instant.

Tang Dingyuan took a deep breath, looked serious, and said in a hoarse voice: "I don't deny that I have indeed lost confidence in the Xinghai Republic..., but this is not the same thing as betrayal!"

"Are you finally willing to admit it?"

Cui Lingfeng narrowed his eyes and said, "Admit that you are a traitor who is greedy for life and afraid of death?"

"I am not a traitor!"

Tang Dingyuan dragged the invisible shackles, and roared like a lion trapped in a trap, "Cui Lingfeng, you members who sit in the parliament all day and point fingers, of course, you can talk about the "Xinghai Republic" that will never perish, regardless of the objective situation. Such nonsense, using the method of spiritual victory to deceive ourselves and others! But for those of us who command starships on the bridge, face tens of thousands of practical problems every day, and watch the Firefly decline day by day, but are helpless. It is useless to rely solely on spirit, belief, and patriotic enthusiasm! No matter how firm our belief in the Star Sea Republic is, we cannot solve the actual problems that occurred in the starship, and we cannot change half a steamed bun or half a screw. No... we are heading towards annihilation step by step!"

"Let's face it!"

"The Republic of the Star Sea...has long since perished, a thousand years ago, and now the Firefly, drifting in the sea of ​​stars, is nothing more than its corpse!"

"It's impossible to resurrect this corpse alone, it will only rot slowly, until finally, it turns into a handful of dust in the cold universe!"

"We can't go back to heaven. The Star Sea Republic is in the past, a history of a thousand years ago. If we really want to go back to the Star Sea Central and avenge the destruction of the Star Sea Republic in the past, we can only join the Xingyao Federation, and we can only combine the two strands of cultivation. Together with the power of the civilization of those cultivators, that is the future, the future that belongs to all cultivators!"

"shut up!"

I don't know if Cui Lingfeng was acting, showing his true feelings, or both, his face suddenly became extremely terrifying, as if something that had been guarded in his heart for a lifetime was smashed by someone. Crush, "You boneless capitulator, traitor, listen clearly, the Star Sea Republic has not perished, as long as we are here, it will never perish! One day, we will fight back to the center of the Star Sea, and let The battle flag of the Republic is flying again in every corner of Tianji Star, every one!"

Tang Dingyuan was taken aback slightly by his blood-filled pupils and furious appearance. After looking at him carefully, Tang Dingyuan showed a sarcastic smile: "The so-called 'we' means that you are no different from that group of people. Are you an inattentive congressman? What are you going to use to fight back to the center of the Star Sea, your spirit and patriotic enthusiasm?"

Cui Lingfeng took a deep breath, and stared at Tang Dingyuan with disdain: "A purely technical school like you, who only thinks about weapons, and who is supreme about cannons and giant ships, naturally doesn't understand the importance of spirit. Whoever you rely on, that’s all.”

"But let me tell you, don't underestimate the power of the spirit. People must have a little spirit! Thinking back a thousand years ago, if our ancestors hadn't relied on this spirit that you despise, they would have How could our love and loyalty to the Star Sea Republic break through the siege again and again, escape the clutches of the empire, and persist until today even when we lost 80% of our population and combat power?"

"You are the commander of the battleship, so you should know better than me. Normally, if a unit loses at most 20% of its combat power, it will collapse completely!"

"But we didn't. We didn't collapse. Instead, we went all the way to today. With the entire Star Sea being swallowed up by the Empire and the Holy Alliance, our Star Sea Republic is still fighting!"

Tang Dingyuan said coldly: "I refuse to call our current situation a 'battle'. Think about the last time we met the Imperial Claw Fleet. It was even more embarrassing than the bereaved dogs hiding in Tibet! I want a real 'battle' , only by joining the Xingyao Federation and fully integrating each other's strengths will there be such a small chance to go back to the center of the Star Sea!"

"You ask me if I have lost confidence in the Star Sea Republic? Yes! I never hide my thoughts. I think the Star Sea Republic is hopeless and dead long ago!"

"But you ask me if I am a traitor? No! I also love the Star Sea Republic, and I am also willing to inherit the spirit of the Star Sea Republic. I also hope that the Star Sea Republic can be reborn with a new name, a new look, and a new attitude!"

"The Star Sea Republic is the supreme country of human civilization that inherited the spirit of the Star Sea Empire and emerged as the times require. If the Star Sea Empire is called the 'First Cultivation Civilization' for humans to dominate the Star Sea, then the Star Sea Republic is the 'Second Cultivation Civilization', and Today, a thousand years later, the Star Federation is fully qualified to become the "third civilization of cultivation", inheriting the same spirit from the Star Sea Empire to the Republic, and taking over the unfulfilled mission of all cultivators for 10,000 years. Civilization, once again sweeping the entire universe!"

"This is all my thoughts. I don't want to surrender to the Star Sea Federation, but to inject the spirit of the Star Sea Republic, which I love and swear to protect, into the Star Sea Republic. On the corpse of the Star Sea Republic, create a A more powerful, brighter, cultivation country with an infinite future!"

Tang Dingyuan's voice was as cold as hail at the beginning, but in the end it roared into thunder with flames.

Cui Lingfeng didn't seem to expect him to say such a thing at all, and his face was filled with astonishment and doubt for a while.

"Looking at your current appearance, if it weren't for your superb acting skills, I really believe that you are not playing tricks in secret."

Tang Dingyuan sat back again, fell into deep thought, murmured while pondering, "That would be terrible, the two of us, the speaker of the government-in-exile and the captain of the Firefly were framed at the same time..."

Cui Lingfeng frowned: "What did you say?"

Tang Dingyuan glanced at him, and said with a sneer, "Cui, Chairman, I believe in your love and loyalty to the Xinghai Republic, but what you call 'we' is not necessarily the same, not every congressman can be like you, Relying on fanatical loyalty, I am ready to go into exile for another thousand years!"

"For the vast majority of councilors, what they care about is just a little bit of power and status the size of a sesame seed, which can help them get a more spacious cabin and some slightly delicious synthetic food."

"As long as there is an opportunity, these congressmen will never mind selling their loyalty and 'spirit'. As you said, they can be sold to the Federation, and naturally they can also be sold to the Empire!"

Cui Lingfeng narrowed his eyes and paused every word: "What do you mean, explain clearly?"

"Do you really think that all councilors are like you, willing to sail all the way to the end of the universe under the name of 'Star Sea Republic'?"

Tang Dingyuan said calmly, "Yes, the posture they showed in the parliament is indeed so, all of them are high-spirited and loyal to the extreme, but that's just because the five words 'Xinghai Republic' have not been sold yet. It’s just a good price in their minds, do you want to know how many congressmen came to me in private, saying that they are not opposed to joining the Star Federation, but are afraid to speak out in person because of your coercion and persecution?”

Cui Lingfeng didn't say a word, just stared at Tang Dingyuan.

Tang Dingyuan's face was calm and he did not back down.

"Brother Dingyuan, let's stop here today."

Cui Lingfeng said slowly, "I still have something to do, let's take a step first."

"You should hurry up."

Tang Dingyuan smiled, a little bleakly, "If you were not acting just now, you really found evidence from my daughter Jing's brain, and Ding Zhengyang is now the acting captain. If he really accused me, then We, the Firefly, the government-in-exile, and the Star Federation, are in big trouble.” (To be continued.)